Exploding Water

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How to, for only a few dollars, create hydrogen from water, salt and electricity. This is an experiment that produces explosive gases, involves electricity and water and a number of risks so please be careful. Not an experiment to be performed by idiots.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: August 24, 2006 at 2:11 am
Author: MikeReedKS

Length: 00:05:44
Rating: 4.34
Views: 269501

Tags: Explode Water Hydrogen Electrolysis Experiment chemicals cool fire burning boom blast light

Video Comments:
litewright (October 6, 2008 at 8:10 pm)
go ahead and touch the water and see what happens
electricdude107 (October 5, 2008 at 6:54 am)
This is one of those vids that i actually have to say. Nice Job.....i jsut like long nose lighters because they are safer with messing around with fire.
OnyxMP312 (October 5, 2008 at 6:49 am)
u might want to use a long nose lighter so u dont burn your hand of xD
MikeReedKS (October 5, 2008 at 9:56 pm)
Agreed, this is just a good idea from a safety perspective. In reality, the reaction time is very short and the total heat is quickly dissipated, so flesh burns from lighting the gas has a very low probability. This is much like passing your finger quickly through a candle flame. The total time in contact with the heat source is too short for the heat to be conducted into the skin causing a burn. None the less, using a long lighter is just being smart. Why take unnecessary chances?
ldragonheart (October 4, 2008 at 10:30 am)
does this cause a short
MikeReedKS (October 5, 2008 at 9:51 pm)
A short is caused when the resistance drops to near zero in a circuit. As long as there is a load, there is not a short. In this case, the water is a conductor with high resistance which works as the load. The catalyst lowers the resistance allowing the flow of electrons. This electron flow breaks the bonds of the water molecule releasing the component gases.
lokilulu (September 24, 2008 at 3:44 am)
try baking soda
MikeReedKS (September 24, 2008 at 7:59 am)
In the instructions I say that you can use many different catalyst, including baking soda.
kx85isweet (September 21, 2008 at 10:42 pm)
ur suposed to catch the hydrogen in a vial and the oxygen in a seperate one try using a hoffman aperatus
MikeReedKS (September 22, 2008 at 6:36 pm)
These are typically very expensive. The primary goal of this experiment was very low cost and easy to perform.