text: Liquid ammonia will dissolve all of the alkali metals and other electropositive metals such as Ca, Sr, Ba, Eu, and Yb (also Mg using an electrolytic process), giving characteristic blue solutions. For alkali metals in liquid ammonia, the solution is blue when dilute and copper-colored when more concentrated (> 3 molar). These solutions conduct electricity. The blue colour of the solution is due to ammoniated electrons, which absorb energy in the visible region of light. The diffusivity of the solvated electron in liquid ammonia can be determined using potential-step chronoamperometry.
  Solvated electrons in ammonia are the anions of salts called electrides. 
  :Na  +  6 NH  →  [Na(NH)] + e
  The reaction is reversible: evaporation of the ammonia solution produces a film of metallic sodium.