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Quick physics question
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Sat, 15 May 1999 21:49:43 GMT
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Hey all,
Just a quick question, or series of questions, but it'll keep me up all night
if I don't find the answer. :-,
If you take a sealed container with nothing but pure water, and you heated it
enough -- assuming the container withstands the heat and pressure with no ill
effect -- will the oxygen and hydrogen eventually separate? At some point,
will the container hold just free hydrogen and oxygen molecules (H2 and O2)?
Would you have molecules or atoms? Would you be able to form ozone (O3)?
Would the fact that you have twice as many hydrogen atoms than oxygen atoms be
significant?
Then, if the container were cooled down to a temperature where steam can exist
again, would the hydrogen and oxygen then ignite (back to H2O)? Would this
combustion increase or decrease the pressure inside the container?
Cheers,
- jsproat
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| (...) Eventually you will get a plasma, composed of neucleii and some electrons. At that point it's not really relevant to talk about compounds, what you have is basically soup. From memory you can't dissociate most simple molecules before they (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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