Can I make water?

[Mycroft_H]

That’s it! Thanks.

I wasn’t even close. :smack:

[yBeayf]

Won’t hydrogen peroxide, if left to its own devices, naturally decompose into oxygen and water?

[noname]

@TJdude825

…but I think the reason is that all the above methods require a lot of energy, so it wouldn’t be worth it, especially when so much water already exists on our planet.

I agree. Why work up a sweat when water is easily available.

[Manduck]

@noname

I agree. Why work up a sweat when water is easily available.

But you could distill water from the sweat

[Gunslinger]

Note that the OP’s experiment will probably void the warranty on the blender.

My high school and college chemistry teachers did it with a balloon full of hydrogen and a candle taped to a yardstick. RAWDuke must’ve slept through that day of his chemistry classes.

[RayMan]

Moles, people, moles. If you’re gonna talk chemistry, you might as well do it like the chemists do it. No one talks about a “zillion” molecules. Chemists use the term mole to refer to “a whole lotta” of something. One mole of water is approximately 6.022x10[sup]23[/sup] water molecules. Thats a whole lot more than a zillion. It’s almost a trillion trillion.

[Manduck]

@RayMan

Moles, people, moles. If you’re gonna talk chemistry, you might as well do it like the chemists do it. No one talks about a “zillion” molecules. Chemists use the term mole to refer to “a whole lotta” of something. One mole of water is approximately 6.022x10[sup]23[/sup] water molecules. Thats a whole lot more than a zillion. It’s almost a trillion trillion.

Oh yeah? Well, a zillion is a trillion trillion jillion! So there

[ouryL]

@RAWDuke

Dumb question I’ve had bouncing between my ears for a while:

If I put 1 Zillion atoms of oxygen and 2 Zillion atoms of hydrogen into my kitchen blender and set to “puree” will I end up with 2 Zillion molecules of water?

I’m guessing not, since there’s probably more required than simple agitation to force atoms to combine into molecules. But, what mechanism would be needed?

Hydrogen peroxide?

[Maus_Magill]

@Gunslinger

Note that the OP’s experiment will probably void the warranty on the blender.

My high school and college chemistry teachers did it with a balloon full of hydrogen and a candle taped to a yardstick. RAWDuke must’ve slept through that day of his chemistry classes.

How? I remember convincing a student teaher to repeat the experiment. She did it a little too close to the window. It was almost as much fun as when we convinced her to put a couple of grams of Potassium in some (pre-made) water.

[noname]

@Manduck

But you could distill water from the sweat

Thats more work. Better to just turn the tap on.

[R.P.McMurphy]

How to think of it in layman’s terms:

Water is like ash. It’s what’s left over. That’s why water and ash don’t burn very well and can be used to suffocate fires. They are what’s left over after a burn.

That’s why exhaust systiems on cars will rust out faster on cars that are run for short periods rather than extended periods. The water created from the burn settles in the exhaust system and if the temperature doesn’t get hot enough to evaporate it out the water will settle and cause corrosion from the INSIDE.

Yes, you can make water but the cost of the energy to create the “ash” makes the process a ludicrouse exercise.

Also, one theory is that the oceans were the byproduct of massive electrical storms in the early development of the earth. I’ll leave that to the geoligists and the creationists.

[Jenaroph]

@Mycroft H.

ROTFL! Thank you for the laugh. What a thread, Young Einstein and that one, which, for the life of me, I can’t quite place. (Young Frankenstein?) Absolute brilliance!

I may need to make a sig from this. I suspect it’ll be the closest I ever come to being called brilliant in GQ.

and yes, it was Jaws.