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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 23, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Author: MikeReedKS

Length: 0:05:44
Rating: 4.36
Views: 321,836

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

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Video Comments:
CaptainAshMorrigan (Thursday 4th of December 2008 03:25:38 PM)
really.. the light.. pure stupidity, you shouldve lit a lint, and placed it over the water, your fingers were mm's away from live water...
HOPPINGBARBEQUE (Thursday 4th of December 2008 02:12:33 PM)
the reason that it explodes is because you create pure oxygen like on Venus because it has more oxygen in the atmosphere and that means simple heat can start a fire on water because there is not any nitrogen in the water unlike our air which is made of 72 percent nitrogen. a couple on years ago i did something like this in school exept.
ScottAKAposeidon (Sunday 30th of November 2008 03:28:11 PM)
don't inhale the clorine, if you do you're lungs will dissolve, nasty stuff.
Kigmar (Saturday 29th of November 2008 07:48:29 PM)
chlorine isnt explosive
redelman (Saturday 29th of November 2008 07:50:57 PM)
I never said chlorine was explosive, I was responding to someone's question on why the water turned yellow.
potterman6293 (Sunday 30th of November 2008 09:06:58 AM)
when you put water water through electrolosis, it breaks down into hydrogen and hydroxide. the hydrogen wwas the gas he was igniting, and the hydroxide was the white liquid that was forming as the water was broken down. H2O -----> H + OH
CONNOR1912 (Friday 28th of November 2008 09:08:29 AM)
2:55 THATS SOME DIRTY WATER
cyleleghorn123 (Monday 24th of November 2008 01:00:08 PM)
i was just skipping through the video, and when you first lit the bubbles, wasnt the electricity still on? if so, couldnt you have just gotten 4 amps and died if you touched the water?
felineboy (Tuesday 25th of November 2008 03:17:51 PM)
Not really. There were 4 amps (or 10 at the end) because the resistance of the water was low, not because the voltage was high. 12 volts wouldn't have hurt him.
MikeReedKS (Thursday 27th of November 2008 05:37:45 AM)
You can touch the water, that isn't what it takes. As long as both the positive and negative sides of the supply are in the water the risk of electrocution is near zero as the electricity will always follow the path of least resistance, and youre pretty high resistance in comparison. So a tip is not to only put one wire in the water and then put the other one in your mouth! Keep them both in the water and your safe.