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Oluwaseun Adeyemi
If a small piece of sodium is dropped into some ethanol, it reacts steadily to give off bubbles of hydrogen gas and leaves a colourless solution of sodium ethoxide, CH\(_3\)CH\(_2\)ONa. Sodium ethoxide is known as an alkoxide.
If the solution is evaporated carefully to dryness, the sodium ethoxide is left as a white solid.
2CH\(_3\)CH\(_2\)OH + 2Na \(\rightarrow\) 2CH\(_3\)CH\(_2\)ONa + H\(_2\)