Is it possible to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen in watter?

Question

Then why arent we using hydrogen as our main power source?

Answer 1

Electrolysis; In a glass cup pour water H2O add salt NaCl, water is a low electric conductor salt kicks it up the current. Get two medal bar form a hardware store or home depot and 2 alligator medal tooth. Take a 9 volt single battery put a red wire to + and black to - withen the alligator tooth, towards the medal bar. And you will put them in the water with the salt added, and it will boil. The gas will escape and there will be Hydrogen and Oxygen gas, take a broken test tube with 2 opening, put it close enough to capture the gas and the other end a balloon. KEEP AWAY FROM FLAMES WILL BE EXPLOSIVE DO IN A VENTILATED AREA.....!!!!

Answer 2

hi, definite that's obtainable and the tactic is noted as Electrolysis (the decomposition of water (H2O) into oxygen (O2) and hydrogen gasoline (H2) as a results of an electric modern-day being handed for the duration of the water). an electric skill source is hooked as much as two electrodes, or 2 plates (often produced from some inert steel which contain platinum or stainless-steel) that are located interior the water. In a precise designed cellular hydrogen will look on the cathode (the negatively charged electrode,), and oxygen will look on the anode (the easily charged electrode). The efficacy of electrolysis is greater desirable for the duration of the addition of an electrolyte (which contain a salt, an acid or a base) and using electro catalysts. Pallavi-student of IILM,Gurgaon.

Answer 3

yes it is possible. Prepare a dilute solution of suplhuric acid and connect it to a cell.At the anode oxygen is evolved and at the cathode hydrogen gas is evolved. Dilute suphuric acid acts as an electrolyte

Cathode: 2 H+(aq) + 2 e- ---> H2(g)
Anode: 2 H20(l) -----> O2(g) + 4H+(aq) + 4 e-


PS sulphuric acid as an electrolyte ensures only hydrogen and oxygen will be given of.If NaCl is used ,Chlorides can get discharged and form Chlorine Cl2(g) unless if the solution is very dilute.

Answer 4

Sure. Pass an electric current through the water. The O2 loses electons and emerges as a gas at one electrode, the H2 gains electrons and the gas emerges at the other electrode. This is a classic high school lab experiment. Usually, an inverted test tube is placed over each wire. since water is H2O, you get twice the volume of hydrogen - way cool

Answer 5

Yes. You can run ELECTRICITY through the water in an electrical current. It will produce a gas like vapor and make a hissing noise, but it will not be vapor. It will be hydrogen and oxygen diffusing into the air as products of a chemical reaction.

Answer 6

of course: is normally done in the so called nuclear submarines:they can stay under the water for ever, separating them, and using hydrogen for the engines and oxygene to breathe.
the normal submarines, instead, have to come out of the water to stock up on oxygen.
the way to do it, is well explained by the other anwers.

Answer 7

yes, it is called hydrolysis.
In hydrolysis you are applying a current of electricity to water, this separates the two hydrogen off of the oxygen.

Answer 8

u can but its very difficult and requires alot of energy, because the the hydrogen bonding as a result of the induced dipole by the electronegative oxygen, these very weak Van der Waals forces can become very dtrong in large numbers

Answer 9

yes its possible. Just reverse the process used to combine the two.

Answer 10

yes, run electricity through it.

many industrial gases are made this way.(other elements have to be added to the water).