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Chemistry Forums for Students => High School Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: blahblah on May 12, 2005, 01:11:55 PM
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How do you produce water using just other chemicals, having no water to begin with?
ie with hydrogen peroxide? other stuff neutralizing each other?
will a 100% solution of methyl alcohol neutralize an 80% solution of ethyl alcohol to make water? or i dont know what it does
*delete me*
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Two simplest things coming to mind are synthesis out of gaseous hydrogen and oxygen and neutralization - for example adding anhydrous acetic acid to sodium hydroxide. Also in some polycondensation reactions water is a byproduct.
No idea what you mean by neutralization in repect to methanol and ethanol. They just mix. Besides, using 80% ethanol you use 20% water.
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2NH3 + 3CuO -> 3Cu + 3H2O + N2
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geodome's post reminded me of other obvious reaction - reduction of oxides using hydrogen.
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How about via Fisher esterification?
alcohol + carboxylic acid --> ester + water
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If you mix barium hydroxide octahydrate with ammonium chloride (both are solids) you get a rather large quantity of very cold water. (cold enough to freeze pure water around the beaker, for instance).
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Here is the coolest way to do it. Hydrogen plus oxygen plus flame. :devil2:
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Eeee, this one was already posted. I have just deliberately called it 'synthesis' so that it sounds more seriously ;D
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geodome's post reminded me of other obvious reaction - reduction of oxides using hydrogen.
dealing with oxygen directly is dangerous. i would a prefer a metal oxide with higher oxygen mass%.
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dealing with oxygen directly is dangerous. i would a prefer a metal oxide with higher oxygen mass%.
It must be my English then, metal oxides are part of what I meant by 'oxides' :(
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Thanks guys! You helped a lot! :o