by freddyseven » Sun 15 Jun 2008, 16:38:27
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'W')hy Doesn't Water Burn?
Every first year chemistry student knows that water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. That’s what that “H-two-oh” thing is all about.
In our chemistry classes, we also learned that hydrogen is just about the most combustible thing out there. You know the story of the Hindenburg and “Oh the humanity” and all that.
And we also learned that three things are needed to create a fire: fuel, oxygen, and heat.
And any third grader knows that you can put out a fire by pouring water over it.
Waitammint. Am I the only one to see a paradox here? You put out a fire by pouring two-thirds of the formula for fire on it? Gee, it seems like water should be a tinderbox, just waiting for a match to turn it into a lighter-than air blazing inferno.
What gives? Well, if you just sorta mixed up the hydrogen and oxygen then, yeah, you’d have a ball of gas that’s ready to light up like a Kuwait oil field. But that’s not what water is. The hydrogen and oxygen form together at the molecular level.
In a union that is only fully understood by God, atoms can bond together to form something completely different — something that didn’t exist before. Something that that has absolutely no characteristics of the original raw materials.
God allows us to use electrolysis to break the hydrogen and oxygen apart. But He bonds them together so tightly that it usually requires more energy to break them up than what is yielded in fuel. When God sticks things together, He generally doesn’t mess around.
In the book of Second Corinthians, the Apostle Paul tells us that “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature”. The implication is that we are made into a new species, literally something that never existed before, something that has no characteristics of the original raw material.
I guess God knows what He’s doing. After all, He can take the most perfect fuel in the universe and turn it into a pretty good fire extinguisher.
http://themindofjoe.blogspot.com/2006/0 ... -burn.html
You need to take chemistry.
Atoms have strong arm atoms with strong claws, and there are fat target atoms with fat bellies.
Oxygen is a strong arm atom with two claws
hydrogen is a small pink smurf with a fat tummy
hydrogen is good for clawing into and oxygen is a great T-rex that grabs things
when the T-rex has both claws full with two smurfs, then it lets out a roar of appreciation (energy)
but it can't grab more
the roar scares the mice on the treadwheel in the car motor and makes the car go
once the roar happens you dont have any more roar unless you roar at the oxygen and it drops the smurfs causing them to scamper away in streaks of blood trails whereupon they are fair gain for other oxygens.
the theory is to roar at water, and release the smurfs and then inject them into the motor where T-rexs oxygens can find them and grab them and scare the mice into making the car go
its all theory, but it doesnt work.
cause the T-rex's that grab the hyrogen cant grab the ethanol so some escape to party another day.
soemthing like that, I think I had a sick day on oxidation-reduction reactions in college..