Water can Burn??

Why the heck did he use that gay Nintendo music when "Smoke On The Water" is easily available.

Sounds more like 80's porno music.

Yup...water can burn. This is especially important when melting snow for drinking water. If you heat it too fast, it'll taste nasty!

ohiobrewtus said:

Sounds more like 80's porno music.

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Speaking of which . . .

This is for those of us for whom the sound of a cheesy wah-wah guitar brings back fond memories.
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He's not burning water. He's burning hydrogen released by the chemical reaction.

orfy, thats what I was going to say, no water burning here.

Hey so if I pour gasoline/(insert flammable here), and water together and put a match to it, is water burning?

I suppose it is all subjective though.
For something to burn it needs to sustain a chemical reaction which allows combustion to continue and is self fuelling.

A lot of people believe oxygen is combustible. It's not. It allows combustion to take place.

If the water is accelerated close to the speed of light, atmospheric friction will cause it to burn.

Personally haven't tried it myself though.

Vermicous said:

If the water is accelerated close to the speed of light, atmospheric friction will cause it to burn.

Personally haven't tried it myself though.

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Has anyone ever tried it?
At that speed is it still water or is it steam or is it hydrogen and oxygen?
And then wouldn't the flame blow out. (Ever tried holding a lit match out of a car window?)

D'oh, the video's gone!

For posterity, it was basically - drop a couple batteries in a small glass of water, leave them there for about a half hour, take them out, light the water. I've got to try this

I saw a clip recently on how to make - I think it was a lighter - out of a potato. I can't remember all the details, though...

I thought this was going to be about a Sodium cube being dropped into water.

If it were hydrogen it should burn with a red flame. I am calling shenanigans on this clip, it looks like they substituted the water for something else.

I really would like to see the video...

Here's a copy:

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And an amusing rebuttal:

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The first video appears to be alcohol. If they really were lighting hydrogen from electrolysis, it would light very quickly with a red-orange fireball and probably an audible pop. However, any hydrogen produced in an open container like that would simply rise and disperse itself into the surrounding atmosphere, so it's unlikely that you'd ever be successful with this particular "experiment" conducted in this manner. ...and why would you disturb your "experiment" by removing the batteries?!

Shenanigans!

Vermicous said:

If the water is accelerated close to the speed of light, atmospheric friction will cause it to burn.

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Water traveling at the speed of light will leave the atmosphere really fast...

Yeah, that's definitely just alcohol there....neat idea though.

Here's the Yuri demo of how to do this one right:

[youtube]Paor1RnAviQ[/youtube]

It's a battery charger connected to electrodes in a saltwater solution. I collected the hydrogen bubbles produced at the cathode (negative side) in a container that should look familiar to most of you. The anode was made from copper clad steel welding rod, and it turned the water brown with oxides.

Yuri_Rage said:

Here's the Yuri demo of how to do this one right:

[youtube]Paor1RnAviQ[/youtube]

It's a battery charger connected to electrodes in a saltwater solution. I collected the hydrogen bubbles produced at the cathode (negative side) in a container that should look familiar to most of you. The anode was made from copper clad steel welding rod, and it turned the water brown with oxides.

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Are you trying to win a Darwin award?

Dude said:

Are you trying to win a Darwin award?

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Nah - we did a really similar demo when I was in school. I knew what I was in for, but you can still see me flinch a little...