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Offline completenovice

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Electron Beam
« on: July 22, 2008, 05:05:09 PM »
Hi,

Does anyone know what the effect on the water molecule could be if you passed an electron stream through it?

If there was no effect why not?

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ps: it may be a rubbish question but I am a complete novice.

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Re: Electron Beam
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2008, 10:39:03 AM »
Water is a polar molecule, therefore it could arrange itself such that the delta+ end forming attraction with the stream of electrons. Perhaps some will get deflected due to the lone pair on oxygen atoms as well as the delta- end.
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Re: Electron Beam
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2008, 08:10:13 PM »
Well, because we deal with huge quantity of energy there is possibility for formation of ionic water molecules in excited state (singlet or/and triplet) which have very different chemical properties. This may be a reason for intense declusterization or intense clusterization (as you know the water exist in clusters of approximately 70-1000 molecules), or reason for generating oxygen or hydrogen radicals.... there are 1000....00000 possibilities

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