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Preparation of Hydrogen from Cold Water and Metals

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Why hydrogen is not prepared in the laboratory by the action of sodium with cold water?

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Reaction with sodium is explosive/ highly exothermic in nature,so we could not control the reaction so it is not carried out in laboratory preparation of hydrogen

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