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Offline mortadelas

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Hydrogen ion combusts?
« on: July 02, 2010, 08:36:18 AM »
H2 is valid fuel for combustion, is either H+ or OH- also valid?

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Re: Hydrogen ion combusts?
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2010, 09:59:51 AM »
What do you mean H+ or OH- ? What is the counter-ion in each case?
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Re: Hydrogen ion combusts?
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2010, 11:02:07 AM »
Doing an experiment atm, through H2O Hydrolysis we get those 2 ions, i suppose when in contact with the air we will have Nytrogen Hydroxyde and H2. I could be horribly mistaken though as I am really new to chemistry

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Re: Hydrogen ion combusts?
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2010, 04:07:54 PM »
A hydrogen atom is made up of 1 proton and 1 electron. Electrons have a negative charge, so when an atom loses an electron it becomes positive charge.
Since H+ is positive, we can figure out that it's lost it's electron, and all that's left over is a proton. Protons can't combust, so there's your answer.

Hydroxide ions can't combust either.

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Re: Hydrogen ion combusts?
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2010, 03:15:14 PM »
Doing an experiment atm, through H2O Hydrolysis we get those 2 ions (you may well do, but not in the gaseous state where they react with other compnents of air)

The gaseous components produced are H2 and O2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water
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