what if i use household materials to "carry hydrogen and oxygen on its normal state?

What if i instead of using expensive materials and building cryogenic systems to store oxygen and hydrogen...
   I use electrolysis to separate oxygen (Negative) and hydrogen (positive) from water and store it in a water bottle so that i have a portable system of hydrogen and oxygen so that i can use it a few minutes after its "extraction".
  

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Oct 7, 2012. 12:42 AMrickharris says:
Yess... I say with caution, of course you can store gas in a bottle - Generally captured over water to make sure the gas isn't contaminated.

I am assuming your water bottle is empty?

Your not going to get much gas without compressing it though - Depends on what you want to do with it.
Oct 6, 2012. 10:18 PMiceng says:
That is actually a great way to do it !

Also you avoid storing Hydrogen..
Hydrogen is a single atom which leaks from any pressure container
devised by man..  It Hy  is sliding between the empty spaces in the metal cylinder atomic structure  used to contain it.......

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Oct 6, 2012. 2:33 PMAndyGadget says:
 
Absolutely no problem at all.
The reason cryogenic storage is used is that oxygen gas at room temperature / pressure will have 848 times the volume of liquid oxygen.  For hydrogen it will be 860 times more.
Pressurised storage is also used, but a much greater volume can be stored when in liquid state.

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