How to Burn Water

I've managed to burn water using my microwave oven. I'm looking for individuals who are willing to duplicate my experiments to prove that this really works. The first video of an experiment has been posted, and the next will follow. Maybe YouTube can be utilized to help save the environment. Exactly how hot is in question, I can use melting points and tell you that I have reached temperatures over 1500°C.

At just over 3227 ºC the water molecule breaks down into elemental hydrogen and oxygen, and at a temperature of 1527 ºC water breaks down into a few flammable components such as H2, O2, H2O, O, H and OH. Hydrogen spontaneously ignites at 585°C. I have reached a temperature in 3 to 5 second bursts that melted the mica window on my microwave oven. The melting point of Mica is at 1350 ºC, and that ruined that microwave. As long as that is true and we prove or disprove it, we could possibly use it instead of coal.

The energy density of water is about the same as hydrogen per liter of liquid because, the chemical equation for water is

2 liters of hydrogen + 1 liter of oxygen → 2 liters of water.

So, if the Microwave Irradiated Environment of a Microwave Oven does make the water molecule unstable there is approximately 120 Mega Joules of energy contained in 1 Kilogram of water. But, only if you can actually make the water burn efficiently can it be used as fuel. If 1% of a Kilogram of water burns in 1 second at an efficiency of 100% due to the microwave's energy making the molecule unstable, at the expense of 1 to 45 Kilowatts of electrical energy, the heating energy product would be 1.2 Megawatts. If the co-efficient exists at 1 Kilowatt to burn water at a rate of 10 grams per second the power gain would be 1,200 times the heating energy over microwaves alone. In the worst case requiring 45 Kilowatts to burn 10 grams of water per second the product would be 26.67 times the heating energy.

Reference Link #1:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_density_in_energy_storage_...

Reference Link #2:
http://cnx.org/content/m12431/latest/

Reference link #3:
http://www.hydrogen.org/Knowledge/w-i-energiew-eng2.html

REQUIRES A 1200 Watt Microwave Oven, with an internal microwave energy level of 950 Watts for results.

Step #1, Find a paper towel, shot glass, and a mason jar.

Step #2, Fill the shot glass quarter full of water, place it inside the microwave oven on top of the paper towel, and place the mason jar over it.

Step #3, Turn on the microwave and bring the water to a boil for about 1 minute to force any atmospheric air out of the mason jar. Hot air or hot steam rise, and the force of convection will push any other gases except steam and water out.

Step #4, Place 12 cm long piece of 30 AWG magnet wire and make a circle with it with a gap no greater than 1mm, and place that into inside the mason jar, and keep it out of the shot glass. Be extra careful to use an oven mitts, only lift the mason jar straight up to place the wire and straight down. You don't want any air to replace steam.

Step #5, Turn the microwave on HIGH for 3 to 5 seconds, and You be Burning Water.

Step #6, repeat steps #1 through #5, but use a classroom Spectrometer, and watch the hydrogen line.

I should have anticipated a threshold energy level. It's common in electrochemistry, electrolysis requires 1.2 volts to start, a xenon bulb requires 2 Kilovolts to fire, and this seems to require around 950 Watts of microwave energy to make water unstable enough to burn.

Your household microwave oven only produces 600 to 950 Watts of microwave energy, and the power supply typically requires 800 to 1200 Watts to run the timer, fan, and magnetron together. An 800 Watt Oven would normally only have 600 watts of microwave energy internally.

Reference Joules to Watts:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/G_knott/elect63.htm

Reference to Plasmolysis:
http://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu/~ceweb/mcfar/courses/uploads/246/Bockris_Hydroge...

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[Miss6Nintendo]

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[FlavoredCoffeeGuy]

Therefore, it is technically impossible to produce a perfectly square or rectangular object. This is simply due to the fact that the electron orbital follows curved path, and skin voltages associated to ionic potentials and the quantum barrier are also curved. Therefore, there are such things as squares and rectangles but, not without beveled edges in real world objects. In the same sense, there is no such thing as a perfectly sharp edge at the nanometer scale.

[Miss6Nintendo]

I know that's impossible to do that. It's a paradox. And I was just kidding =P ;)

[FlavoredCoffeeGuy]

It's not that often that I actually see a communication from a lady of such eloquence.

[thewellpreparedguy]

while its true that you cannot produce a perfectly square or rectangular object, its not because the orbitals are curved. electrons are singularities, and while the associated probability maps do tend to have some curved surfaces, the electron is not orbiting the nucleus in a classical sense

[FlavoredCoffeeGuy]

The electron's field/charge and energy level is always first and foremost of any surface. If you look at a surface closely enough, electrons constantly migrate over it. Overall, the quantum barrier has everything to do with a surface, and it is associated to the charge of the object. Still, it is an electrostatic field, positive or negative, and all in all, that is the only real surface, which is in fact curved.

[Odood19]

if you put anything burning in a microwave, it will form a bright plasma arc

[BigBananaMan]

@BigBananaMan Now the idea that you could get more energy out than you put in and use this as a "fuel" source (not to be confused with energy storage medium) is not logical because it would violate the first and possibly second law of thermodynamics I.E. its a perpetual motion machine. I'm not saying it couldn't happen through the use of other theory like E=MC² or something else but for current knowledge they are electrochemical and a chemical processes as theory.

[BigBananaMan]

I'm pretty sure all you did was produce plasma just like the toothpick method but you do tread on interesting ideas. I'm not sure if you would have heard about it and I don't recall his name but there was a guy in Pennsylvania who discovered that you can break the hydrogen bond in salt water using if I'm not mistake 1.36Ghz at around 300 watts. I believe an electron on the sodium atom of the salt (NaCl presumably) was responsible for the splitting.

[marmite0069]

@FlavoredCoffeeGuy

Sacred Geometry 

[Sethrp96]

That's total bullshit. You know why it looks like it's burning, frickin metal in the microwave!! Put a metal fork in the microwave, it will do the same thing.

[abobjenkins]

where in the world did you get this screwy music? what is wrong with you????

[MultiGazman]

@apologiate07 Havent you hear of nikola tesla?You might wanna retract that comment later.

[smokescreenninjato]

@johannesfastful all you have to do to split water is have 2 graphite leads hooked to 9V batteries and put the graphite in the water, its called electrolysis, look it up

[johannesfastful]

That was a burning match or toothpick. Scientist today don't have the techonolgy or doesn't even know if you can split water to hydrogen and oxygen.

[lolgam200]

if you divide a microwave with zero, u get a flux capacitor

[you54312]

Starwars text!!!