Thursday 10 January 2013

My Scary Experiment

In December, I decided to do electrolysis to make hydrogen.

I attached two alligator clips to the terminals of a 9-volt battery, clipped the other ends to some pieces of carbon, and put them in a container of salty water. This splits the water molecules (H2O) into hydrogen and oxygen. 

The hydrogen comes off one carbon, and the oxygen comes off the other. I only collected the hydrogen.
the hydrogen bubbling into the bottle

more hydrogen bubbling 

AAH! Super concentrated chlorine!
once they discovered what I was doing Mama and Pappa had to dispose of it very carefully!


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