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Hey @mushi at what temperature does water burn?
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 02:39:29 UTC from web-
@nerthos -274k
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 02:42:51 UTC from web-
@mushi That makes no sense.
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 02:45:10 UTC from web-
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 02:49:00 UTC from web
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@awl See, Kelvin scale has no negatives because 0ºk is the absolute 0. Mushi doesn't know and he's trying to avoid the question and I'm legitimately curious about burning water.
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 02:50:08 UTC from web-
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 02:50:51 UTC from web
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@mushi You're the chemistry guy you should knooooow this stuff.
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 02:47:46 UTC from web-
@nerthos if there is a high enough temperature to bur water, the woter produced in the combustion would shift the equilibrium towards the products, produccing more water that woulb burn and producce mpre water and it would get out of control real quick. It is more likelly that you atomize the wather into O and H, and the O would burn the H, but i dont know at what temperature that would happen, probably a real high one
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 02:53:19 UTC from web-
@mushi That'd require an external supply of matter. I'm talking about a controlled environment where there's no way for more matter to be added, so unless the water manages to create new atoms out of energy, water should burn like a good ol' honest hard working molecule.
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 02:57:02 UTC from web-
@nerthos that is the problem, combustion is on molecular Oxyen reacting with something and creating it's oxyde and carbonic gas (if the thing has carbon), If the Owere to oxydize the water it would pobably simply make hydrogen peroxyde, that would readly decompose inte wather and oxygen. Well, at least that is what it would happen in less extreme conditions
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 03:03:50 UTC from web-
@mushi How interested would you be in creating a contained test environment and a reactor to produce enough heat to make it happen?
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 03:05:28 UTC from web-
@nerthos well, lets say my interests are smaller than the funds i'd need
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 03:07:26 UTC from web-
@mushi Let's rob a lot of banks.
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 03:09:57 UTC from web -
@mushi The issue though would be the testing would have to be done outside the earth's atmosphere, since dealing with such temperatures could accidentally set the atmosphere on fire, which in turn would be completely awesome and completely deadly.
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 03:12:17 UTC from web-
@nerthos well, mars clonization might happen in the next few dacades
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 03:14:15 UTC from web-
@mushi Hey mushi let's burn mars.
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 03:16:06 UTC from web -
@mushi we only have to get there before the terraforming starts
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 03:18:35 UTC from web
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@mushi The container would only have water and void, to keep it from changing into other molecules.
Saturday, 22-Mar-14 03:07:01 UTC from web
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