ELECTRIC FIRE

Making a basic machine to turn water into flammable gas is super easy, I'm not even 18 yet. I bet anyone with brains can make electric fire. It works by splitting water, into Hydrogen and Oxygen. Together... THEY BURN!!!!!!!






rate my instructable please, it's my first one!

Step 1 Stuff you need

STEP ONE: Stuff you might need.

1) Cutting tool (knife, scissors, can opener...)
2) glue or solder (hot glue, silicone, electric solder)
3) multimeter
4) small container that won't melt
5) AC to DC converter a.k.a charger that plugs into the wall or a powerful battery
6) two pieces of metal
7) piece of plastic
8) baking soda
9) you!

Comments

[directcurrent13]

Important note here the water is not actually burning. electrolysis is being used to cause a decomposition of water. Creating oxygen and hydrogen "2H2O (L) yields 2H2 + O2." putting a flame to the hydrogen and oxygen causes an exothermic reaction creating water not destroying it. p.s. any ionic compound (I.E. metal bonded to non metal) may be used instead of baking soda.
 Good Instructable on electrolysis though

[ANDY!]

can i put thAT in the 'ible?

[knektek]

do you have to use baking soda? can you use baking powder?

[ANDY!]

I think it could. the cream of tartar might corrode the metal though. salt works too, but it makes the water/metal dirty

[knektek]

thank you.

[knektek]

couldnt you just use a 9v cell?

[ANDY!]

dude, any source of electricity. jus 12 v cause i had one lying around.

[trike road poet]

You laid out a nice simple experiment from my physios classes of 1960.  Well done and clearly a good demo of the principal. 

Now for fun, get an old arc welder, use carbon rods, set up a submerged arc in water, capture the gas released (known as Brown's Gas) which you can pump into tanks and burn like propane in an engine.  The technique is likely as old as you and it is fun to play with.  The carbon from the rod joins with the hydrogen in the water to make carbon-hydrogen gas that is very burnable indeed.  I played with this in the '80's and we ran a small emergency generator on the gas rigged with a propane carburetor. 

[your dog]

how do you power an engine with this?

[codz30]

To convert the chemical potential energy of hydrogen mechanical energy two methods can be used: combustion or electrochemical conversion.

* In hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles, the hydrogen is combusted in engines in a similar method to conventional engines
* In fuel-cell conversion, the hydrogen is reacted with oxygen to produce water and electricity, the electricity used to power motors and the like

Hope that answers your question

[ANDY!]

I dunno for sure. Sorta like a propane engine maybe.

[james.mcglashan]

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[your dog]

yeah! pyro power!

[ScienceWiz]

Cant you use regular water in stead of having to make a solution? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the baking soda release chlorine gas? Not that it would bother me, I've dealt with many dangerous elements, but just wondering. Great instructable, makes you wonder if you could power a motor with water?!?! Real fun idea!

[ANDY!]

not baking soda. mabbie salt. Just water is too much resistance

[fordman15243]

you know it's almost impossible to store hydrogen as a gas without specially contructed tanks, it would just seep throught the material that is supposed to be containing it because of it's small atomic size.

[ANDY!]

oh. thats why when i tried to light it in a bag, it didn't work. would a balloon work?

[fordman15243]

You know a balloon is even less airtight than a plastic bag right?

[ANDY!]

of course not. however, i saw Bill Nye the science guy do it. are you a proffesioal?

[fordman15243]

No, but i am a genius =]

[ANDY!]

yeah right ; )

[sharlston]

nice ible it wilnice ible looks really cool

[123456789pos]

good instructable how do i rate it?

[ANDY!]

On the right side.

[Duke15]

good thinking!

[shawntherobot]

were do you rate it?????????? Ill be back tommorow!!!!!!!

[ANDY!]

Hey. Did you see my other ible. the A/C? Please vote for me. Im 35th or something. OK

[ANDY!]

Wait! It's invisible! well it's where the box with info on it with the number of veiws.

[ANDY!]

Geez it's on the right side. Just scroll up and down.

[shawntherobot]

you should post a picture of an explosion of the hydrogen from a side view. A picture because i cant watch the videos my computer wont load them its to old.

[shawntherobot]

How many volts do you need to to the gas out of the water

[ANDY!]

R U there? Did you make it yet?

[shawntherobot]

it seems my parents wont let me use fire so ill do it over vacation when they go to work!!!!!!!

[ANDY!]

If you can't wait, tell em that some other kid in canada thats 12 years olds done it without killing himself

[shawntherobot]

ya of coarse ill tell them that or will i hehahahahaha. I could just do it in he woods with a car battery as you said, instead of a power supply.

[ANDY!]

More the better! Make sure there are a lot of amperage, mine had 12 volts 1 amp. You can try a car battery charger on high for better results.

[ANDY!]

I have a good idea! (it's DABGEROUS) Hook it onto a car batt

[shawntherobot]

thanks i'll try it with my plugin power supply it goes up to 20 volts before the fuse burns out

[FeedTheGrid]

Cool ible. Maybe I could power one of these with The Green Twist Machine! : - )

[stephenniall]

This is basically Seperating Hydrogen (H) from Water (H20) Using Electrolys If you Made a container from the hydrogen with a Lead you could pump the gas into a engine (Lawnmowers are the best Not your brand spanking new car) The fuel input line to power the engine by water