Well, in the simplest terms that I can understand, which means you have to dumb down to my level, Sunshine, is that;
‘Water is made of two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom. This seems like pretty basic chemistry, so why don’t we just smash them together and solve the world’s water ills? Theoretically, this is possible, but it would be an extremely dangerous process, too.
To create water, oxygen and hydrogen atoms must be present. Mixing them together doesn’t help; you’re still left with just separate hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The orbits of each atom’s electrons must become linked, and to do that we must have a sudden burst of energy to get these shy things to hook up.
Since hydrogen is extremely flammable and oxygen supports combustion, it wouldn’t take much to create this force. Pretty much all we need is a spark – not even a flame – and boom! we have water. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms’ electrons’ orbits have been conjoined.
But we also have an explosion and – if our experiment was big enough, a deadly one.
The ill-fated blimp, the Hindenburg, was filled with hydrogen to keep it afloat. As it approached New Jersey on May 6, 1937, to land after a trans-Atlantic voyage, static electricity (or an act of sabotage, according to some) caused the hydrogen to spark. When mixed with the ambient oxygen in the air, the hydrogen exploded, enveloping the Hindenburg in a ball of fire that completely destroyed the ship within half a minute.
There was, however, also a lot of water created by this explosion.’
This example, I think, would be enough to give anyone pause about trying to get oxygen and hydrogen to do the nasty to produce water. But fear not, fellow homo sapien, there are some wonder workers out there that have come up with some interesting and feasible ideas on how to create water – more about that next wee.
For now, and in the foreseeable future, should you require drinking water that doesn’t go boom when you drink it, have a look at our rather nifty range of water coolers; water boilers; water fountains … (the list goes on). You’re welcome to drop us an e-mail and we’ll be happy to take you through the best water cooler for your requirements.
Rather unfortunately, our water coolers are not cut out for scientific water experiments. Just in case you were wondering.
I just weaken my mind .. about this artificial creation of water .in Earth it couldn’t be.y v can’t try in Mars . Elon musk make everything possible ..😂
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man that some pretty good knowledge about a tickiling question in my head.thank you
I was really wondering about this, thank you so much for this short article on this topic. I enjoyed it!🤗
Dear Mrs/Ms Shaw
I truly enjoyed this short article. It was easy to understand and not at all boring to read.
Thank you for answering my question with a satisfying answer.
Dorothy
I’ve been toiling w that ?myself. Theories like origin of H2O on earth came from ‘water logged’ asteroids do not answer, as where did that H2O come from! That Hydrogen + Oxygen would cause explosion when combined explains why man can’t just make H2O to cure droughts. I guess only answer is God made it
But if we are far from this bonding process then it can be safe
Fusion reactors would produce (create) water as a by-product. Years ago I saw a scientist on TV talking about this. He said that if fusion power could be harnessed it would be a world changing revolution on par with the industrial. But, he went on to say that if all the worlds power was generated by fusion reactors the amount of newly created water released into the earths atmosphere could become a problem. he said that all the water that now exists on the planet is all that there has ever been. Water never goes away it just gets redistributed and life as we know it has evolved to live with that. Starting to create significant amounts of “new” water might upset the whole system.