How to Make Hydrogen : How Water and Electrolytes Are Used for M

No, not soap.

Sodium hydroxide (lye) which can be used for making soap (and many other things).

NaOH (sorry its not noah - even tho noah was around a lot of water).

Sodium Hydroxide or more commonly called lye. I use NaOH in my cell and its easy to get - just find some Roebic Drain Cleaner - its 100% sodium hydroxide.

I am a retard what is NOaH?

uh, soap?

Baking soda breaks down with heat, but NOaH does not - IOW it lasts longer. NOaH isnt that dangerous either. In my cell I use 2 liters of distilled water and only 2 teaspoons of NOaH.

So you can use NOaH or baking soda, the cool thing is that HHO cells are pretty flexible.

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Soda..As in Coke..The Pop.
Soda water..I use it to clean off my terminals on my car battery.
Baking soda is the best.

Potassium Hydroxide is what most companies use as their electrolyte solution. Does your anode rust? A company called Ceranode makes an Anode that doesn't rust and is guaranteed to work for a million miles. I have a couple and there is no rust at all, an am producing 20 gallons of HHO per hour. Am thinking about posting a video really soon for all the unbelievers...lol... GO HYDROGEN!

how much baking soda would you put in a litter of water?

From what I've found is that in Sodium Bicarbonate, it makes carbon monoxide, which is bonded later in the combustion cycle to make carbon dioxide. I would not reccomend this for large applications running in the house, but well reccomended for use in car systems. Please, correct me if I am wrong. If anyone knows the equation for an aqueous acetic acid electrolysis breakdown, could you please respond with it? xD Thanks guys.

More notes on what happens when salt is used.

The crust on the stainless steel is iron chloride, formed from some of the chlorine ions and the steel. The remainder of the chloride ions combine to form poisonous chlorine gas.

The oxygen is bound into hydroxyl (OH-)ions, which do not escape as a gas. They form sodium hydroxide (lye) in solution. The energy needed to separate hydroxyl ions is much higher than that needed to form chlorine gas, so the chlorine gas forms instead.

Electrolytes are different:

- Halogen salts (e.g. table salt) break down, producing chlorine gas instead of oxygen gas. This is a deadly poison.

- The carbonate ions in sodium carbonate, potassium carbonate, and sodium hydrogen carbonate (baking soda) break down to produce carbon dioxide gas instead of oxygen gas.

- Sodium carbonate behaves the same as potassium carbonate, and is common washing soda.

- Sodium hydroxide does work. So does sulfuric acid. Both produce hydrogen and oxygen gases.

you can use salt water however it will corrode stuff much faster and form a crust over the stainless steel.

Simply because the salt in salt-water counts as an impurity :)

Just a theory here...but the sodium chloride in the salt water - the cloride ions would go to the anode and oxidise to form chlorine gas and you definitely don't want that accumulating round local areas, do you?

Ergo, the water must be distilled to be effective and safe.

Insightful question though. :)

And interesting vid.

Why distilled water? I understand it has less contaminates/impurities, but why not salt water?