Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!edsews!charette
From: charette@edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Caution: electolysis of water
Message-ID: <7188@edsews.EDS.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 88 04:11:46 GMT
References: <2479@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <849@inuxm.UUCP> <7395@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <1988Dec20.204917.21249@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1988Dec20.204917.21249@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article <7395@watcgl.waterloo.edu> awpaeth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Alan Wm Paeth) writes:
> >The caution: avoid poisonous Chlorine gas.
> 
> My own experience as a kid, deliberately trying for chlorine, is that it's
> virtually impossible to get any noticeable quantity.  Maybe I didn't hit

Then again, some of us were stupid enough to mix sodium bisulfate with
sodium hypochlorite. Food sure does taste funny with no sense of smell 8^)

Also, after doing the electrolysis bit as a kid, I found out how much power
it took to dissassociate the water molecules by mixing the oxygen and
hydrogen back together and adding a small spark.

Soon afterwards I received my first (but not last) lecture on
thermodynamics and the conservation of energy.

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