Collecting Hydrogen and Oxygen

Step 5 Filling and Conatainment

Now all you have to do is wait for the bottles to become filled with the gas coming from the electrodes. When doing this the unshielded wire's bottle should be filling faster, about twice as fast because water is two parts Hydrogen and one part Oxygen (and because they are both part of the diatomic BrINClHOF [If you have not taken Chemistry disregard this statement it's not important]). If the unshielded wire is making less than the shielded one, turning blue or falls off then you may have switched the charges.

If / when they do fill take the bottle cap of that bottle and make a ring around the inside of the cap and place it underwater and screw it on without letting air out or in. Once you do this use your marker to label it the bottle with the unshielded wire is Hydrogen and the shielded one is Oxygen if you did this correctly.

Comments

[SuperKuper]

If you use NaCl as your electrolyte won't the green bottle be full of Chlorine gas and not Oxygen? Not sure what would happen if you used vinegar. I only want to make hydrogen gas, and a lot of it. I don't care if there's is oxygen or not, I'm just going to vent it. I don't want to make chlorine, and I would prefer not to have oxide salts (not a big deal I just don't want to clean them out all the time, I just want to be able to fill it up with water and electrolytes and go).

so with all that in mind, what combination of electrolytes and anode would be best?