Why did Stan Meyer heat up the HHO gas?

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I also agree on the idea that the gas was gaining energy by heating..... Not sure if it would be enough for making atomic hydrogen.

Steve

Well wasn't that the idea to insert energy into the gas (destabilizing orbits)? Laser energy, heating etc.
You will need less voltage to to strip electrons from the atoms and make it more unstable, then the gas is much more explosive (unstable)?
More from less?

Br,
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I also agree on the idea that the gas was gaining energy by heating..... Not sure if it would be enough for making atomic hydrogen.

Steve

Well wasn't that the idea to insert energy into the gas (destabilizing orbits)? Laser energy, heating etc.
You will need less voltage to to strip electrons from the atoms and make it more unstable, then the gas is much more explosive (unstable)?
More from less?

Br,
Webmug

I like that idea...more for less.....

Its the whole idea to strip electrons from the gas atoms so that they keep on trying to get some kind of equilibrium....

Just theory, till proven....

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For most fluids, flow through a valve results in a dropping of both pressure and temperature. Some fluids such as helium,hydrogen have a "reverse Joule-Thompson" effect, which simply means that instead of the temperature dropping along with the pressure, the temperature actually increases.
If the gas molecules were so close together that moving apart would give
them a lower potential energy, then the molecules repel each other.
Expansion lowers the intermolecular potential energy. This means that
expansion releases energy from the intermolecular potential, and that energy
is picked up by the molecules' kinetic energy. In other words, the gas
molecules speed up and the temperature increases.

 


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