Yes, both of you are right.
If anyone watching the video failed their high school chemistry
and thinks its for real and makes the stuff and snorts/inhales it…
if they survive, they probably wished they’d paid more attention
during their high school chemistry classes.
The most obviously glaring error, of course, is the one
Moderator DarknessHacker noted with a smiley :
In one instance, a supposed gas is identified as NaOH5(g). As a
Chemistry teacher, I’d suggest to my students to note the following
:
1) Sodium has an invariable oxidation state or ionic charge in
its compounds. That is to say, the cation is identified, and hence
so is the charge on the anion.
2) Being in period 2, oxygen has no empty d orbitals. Hence, is
it able to expand its valence octet? (count the number of lone
pairs and bond pairs of oxygen in the supposed compound)
3) Is it possible for the compound or the anion to be a
coordination compound or complex ion? If so, what are the ligands
and what is the central metal atom/ion? Can it exist?
4) Attempt to draw the Kekule structure of the anion in the
supposed gaseous compound. Is it possible, keeping in mind points
#1 to #3 above? Is it possible?
5) Additionally, should NaOH5 (if it exists) be a giant ionic,
or covalent (either simple/discrete molecular or giant molecular)
compound under room temperature and pressure? As such, what are its
possible state symbols it can exist as? (g) or (aq) or (s) or (l)?
What did the video purport its state symbol to be?
Moral of the Story : Know your Chemistry well. It could one day
save your life (alternatively, don’t believe everything you watch
on YouTube).
Analytical skill.
NaOH5.. In Singapore, an O level student can't tell/analyze
using Atomic Obital, Kekule structure etc. Those were only taught
in A levels.
By the way, I'm taking a module on Applied Chemistry in a
polytechnic. 