Talk:Sodium hydride

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It is best to not consider sodium hydride as toxic, as while it is very corrosive to wet human tissues other than its corrosive effect it is not able to damage a human.

What does that mean? It's not toxic, even though it will destroy any tissue that comes in contact with it? Twilight Realm 01:52, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Solubility of NaH[edit]

NaH - it is not soluble, I am pretty sure. There are no sources of naked H- in organic solvents. Lots of students think that it is, but they are fooled by the fact that NaH will deprotonate solvents to give a bases that behave equivalently to NaH. Research chemists would crave a soluble form of real H-, uncluttered with BH3, AlH3. I would love to be wrong on this one! --Smokefoot 02:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why can't it be soluble in water? If we look at alkaline earth metals we can see their hydrides, they react with water and form hydroxide and release hydrogen gas. 42.111.123.14 (talk) 13:49, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

6938 citations and counting as of January, 2017[edit]

According to Chemical Abstracts, nearly 7000 papers, patents, and reports describe NaH. We probably are not going to cite even 1% of these. --Smokefoot (talk) 22:52, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]