US startup Inlyte has introduced an iron-sodium battery designed for both mid-range (4–10 hours) and long-duration (24+ hours ...

He also gave the reaction a jump-start with a small amount of sodium metal, which can be produced by the lower-yielding but far more spectacular thermochemical dioxane method; lithium harvested ...

I had always known how reactive sodium is, ever since demonstrations in chemistry class where a flake of the soft gray metal would dance about in a petri dish full of water and eventually light up ...

The startup's collaboration with the Swiss company, Horien Salt Battery Solutions, is set to accelerate the commercialization ...

A small piece of sodium metal is placed in a flask of chlorine gas. A little water helps expose the sodium so it can react with the chlorine gas. The reaction releases a lot of heat as the ionic ...

Horien Salt Battery Solutions, the sodium-metal-chloride (SMC) battery maker formerly known as FZSoNick, has partnered with ...

4th Period: Potassium and Calcium—Electrons go into the fourth energy level. A small piece of sodium metal is placed in water. The sodium reacts with the water and gets very hot, producing sodium ...