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Since water is made of H2O lets ask a hypothetical question.I have an area that is devoid of any matter. I add 1000 atoms of Hydrogen and 500 atoms of Oxygen, seperately. Will I come up with water? If not why and if so what bonds the two? If I make the assumption that bonding takes place will I have 500 "droplets" of water or will I just have x random amount of droplets with other individual atoms hanging around?

2006-10-15 03:05:36 · 13 answers · asked by keegahill1960 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

13 answers

Yes you will.

2006-10-15 03:06:36 · answer #1 · answered by bor_rabnud 6 · 1 1

What is the volume of the enclosed space? What is the temperature?
h2 and 02 gas atoms are not going to react unless you put energy enery into the systems to break up the bond, then they'll be able to react. But it also depends on the size ofthe enclosed tank, if you have a large tank, then there will be less chances of any two atoms colliding. If you have a smaller space, then there will more collision, which will increase the chance of producing h20 however, it also mean an increase change of h colliding with h or O collidign with O. Temperature is also an important factor as temperature will affect the velocity of the atoms and also its energy. Higher temperature will require less energy input into the system, low temperature will require a lot of energy.

2006-10-15 03:30:12 · answer #2 · answered by ERTW 2 · 0 0

I do believe in Creationism, but not in the standard way. I believe that God made man through the process of evolution. God gave us eyes to see the evidence, and minds to evaluate what we see. In the beginning, right after the event known as the big bang, whether in Einsteinian models or M-brane models, the physical universe consisted of pretty much one type of matter, sub-atomic particles of both matter and antimatter. The two of these annihilated most everything, leaving hydrogen in great abundance. The hydrogen coalesced until the first stars were born. When the main sequence, which is Hydrogen fusing into Helium, runs out, then the helium begins to fuse into heavier and heavier elements, culminating with iron. Two milliseconds after a star is converted into iron, it goes Nova, spreading it's heavy elements across space. The very iron in your red blood cells was born in the heart of a star. All elements were formed in this way, which paved the way for a universe that can support life. So, yes, water is formed from two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atom, and without them, life would not be possible as we know it. God is the ultimate Chemist, the ultimate biologist. I love Science, but I have to concede that God blew the spark of life into the first single-celled creature, which billions of years later resulted in life as we know it. Hope this helps!

2016-03-28 10:03:26 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Water is ionically as HOH, with a hydrogen ion (H+) that is bonded to a hydroxide ion (OH-) which is in dynamic equilibrium between the liquid and vapor states at standard temperature and pressure. In your enclosed system, decrease volume or increase pressure under controlled temperature to form water.

Water can exist under cohesion because it is polar. In water, this happens because the oxygen atom is more electronegative than the area around both the hydrogen atoms.

2006-10-15 04:40:28 · answer #4 · answered by Jasee J 2 · 0 0

NO
You'll just get a mixture of gases. In order for the CHEMICAL reaction to take place (i.e. in order to form new molecules from existing ones) you'll also need to add energy.
This energy will be used to break up hydrogen molecules (each hydrogen molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms) and oxygen molecules (each oxygen molecule consists of two oxygen atoms), so that they are free to form a new molecule consisting of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.

So the recipe is:
1) take 500 molecules of hydrogen(=1000 atoms of hydrogen)
2) add 250 molecules of oxygen (i.e. 500 atoms of oxygen)
3) add energy
4) drink your fresh 500 molecules of water in my health

[as you can see there's nothing random in the process, nor are there individual atoms hanging around, provided that the amount of hydrogen (either in molecules or in atoms) is twice as much compared to the amount of oxygen.]

2006-10-15 07:33:18 · answer #5 · answered by fanis t 2 · 0 0

Basically that's how it works.

I'm not sure about this but I think that if you mix Oxygen molecules (O2) with Hydrogen youll have a huuuge explosion in your hands.. Hydrogen burns in that explosion and consumes all the oxygen and then you have water in your explosed hands.. water = Steam in this scenario..

But honestly.. I suck at chemistry.

2006-10-15 03:16:55 · answer #6 · answered by yard 2 · 0 0

Theoretically yes. Just ignite the Hydrogen and burn in oxygen following the reaction:

2H2 + O2 + [3,2,1,Ignition] ------> 2 H2O

You get the oxide, same as with any other metal.

2006-10-15 03:37:22 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. J. 6 · 0 0

You'll need to have them confined to a small enough volume, and a spark to get them combining, but once they start pairing up they'll generate enough excess energy through the process to keep going. (I just described fire). To get them back apart you have to put that energy they lost as heat back in.

2006-10-15 03:59:10 · answer #8 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0 0

if you just mix the two gases and do nothing else, then nothing will happen but the two gases mix.
you have to add energy, like a spark and in a flash(fire that is)
then you have water. you need energy to bond.(just like people
effort= energy, get it??)
God bless,
gabe

2006-10-15 03:13:49 · answer #9 · answered by gabegm1 4 · 1 0

They probably would not react since 1500 atoms is nothing in any measureable volume.

If you used, say, one mole of oxygen and two moles of hydrogen, that would work: it would be 1,805,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, more or less.

2006-10-15 03:12:21 · answer #10 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 0 2

Yes.
But first you must give them Energy. Then your system will begin to work.
But remember that: you can’t drink it.

2006-10-15 03:13:37 · answer #11 · answered by nobody 1 · 0 0

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