alt.energy.renewable

Eeyore wrote:
| Sevenhundred Elves wrote:
|| Anthony Matonak wrote:
||| IsaacKuo wrote:
|||| "Morris Dovey" wrote:
||||| Hmm. Have you ever _seen_ an H2/O2 flame? I've done it, but
||||| never seen the flame...
||||
|||| The flame in question is apparently rather visible. Why?
|||| I don't know. Maybe it's because of excess oxygen (the
|||| oxygen produced from the water plus the oxygen in the
|||| air)--oxygen is how the Aqueon's flame is made visible.
|||
||| Maybe it's the salt burning.
||
|| That's probably it. Although you shouldn't call it "burning", that
|| might mislead people. The salt just shines from the extreme heat
|| of the invisible H2-O2 flame. Was the flame intensely yellow? If
|| the salt is the explanation it should be yellow because of all the
|| sodium in seawater.
|
| Sodium's emission lines are more orange than yellow actually.

Thanks all. Your responses have been (sorta) enlightening, but you've
got me wondering about what's being produced in this yellow/orange
flame (I'm obviously not a chemistry guru.)

Along with the obvious water vapor, does the flame produce metallic
sodium vapor? NaCl vapor? NaOH vapor? HCl vapor? (other?)

Except for the NaCl, none of these things strike me as particularly
good for breathing...

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
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