The only one that can! Lithium meets Nitrogen
Nitrogen is so lazy that almost no metal reacts with it at room temperature. Lithium is the one exception. It slowly turns into dark reddish lithium nitride.
The result
- What it makes
- Lithium nitride
- Equation
- 6Li + N₂ → 2Li₃N
- When it happens
- At room temperature
Fun fact from Fizzy: Air is mostly nitrogen, so lithium left out in air slowly turns black!
🥽 Only trained scientists should handle pure lithium.