What is the process of creating potable water from hydrogen (liquid or vapor)?
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The simplest way is to apply a spark to it in a sealed container then allow it to cool. The hydrogen will combust, creating water vapour which will condense out as it cools. Collect the condensate and drink.
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It depends greatly on how much you want, how pure you want it, where you are going to get it, what its physical state it, ...\n\nThe cost of Hydrogen will varry quite  abit depending on whether you want 100% pure liquid Hydrogen bought from some chemical supplier, or Hydrogen you wake by running a current through salt water in your kitchen.
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Ethanol, or ethyl alcohol.\n\nSplit the water (H2O) into H and OH.\nSplit one of the bonds of the double bond two form two new single bonds.\nAttach the H to one, the OH to the other, to form H3C-CH2OH.
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I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, but yes, water can be separated into hydrogen gas (H2) and oxygen gas(O2). It's the following redox reaction.\n\nreduction: 2e- + 2H+ + H2O --> H2 + H2O\noxidation: 2H2O --> O2 + 4H+ + 4e-\n\nMultiply the reduction reaction by two and add the two together to get the final reaction.\n\n2H2O --> 2H2 + O2\n\nThe hydrogen goes down from a +1 state to a 0 state, and the oxygen goes up from a -2 state to a 0 state.
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Hydrogen and oxygen, when combined in an appropriate mixture, will burn to form water.  By itself neither pure hydrogen nor pure oxygen will burn (they need an oxidizer and a reductant respectively).  Water is a stable chemical component that does not have the volatile characteristics of the elements that make up its composition (hydrogen and oxygen).
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hypothetically (as I've not ever tried it) you could boil the urine and capture the steam coming off with a condenser.  The steam will cool to become pure water, assuming none of the other components of the urine vaporized at the same temp as the water.  Of course, if there are other substances in the urine that have a vapor pressure of less than water, those things need to be steamed off at whatever temp they need first.  Then boil off the water fraction of the urine and capture that vapor.
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distill\n\nboil liquid, and cool the steam.
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Thank you punnet pundit. I was thinking the same thing. \n\nWhen combining Hydrogen and Oxygen one will get water or hydrogen peroxide. Simple enough. But that's not all there is to it. Just mixing the two doesn't cut it. The mixture must first gain enough energy to react. This is called it's Activation Energy. Which is the amount of energy it needs to absorb in order to carry out a chemical reaction. In the case of water the reaction is spontaneous and once started will continue until there is no longer enough reactants to form products. \n\nIn the case of water the reaction is explosive and quite violent. Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Hydrogen are used in space ships, because the reaction is enough to give the rocket a signifigant amount of upward force. The product is steam really because the water is way above 212 degrees F. but if this is condensed onto something below that temperature you get pure water.\n\nHydrogen peroxide slowly over time can break down in light. That's all I really know about it.
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Are you talking molecular level or physical process?\n\nWater is the bond between Hydrogen+ and two Oxygen- formulating H2O.\n\nWater as in the rain.  Evaporation is the water droplets from the sun heating up the water rising to the sky, also the plants perspire its water from the heating of the sun and rises to the sky, then condensation is the cooling of the droplets and condensing, weighs down the cloud with concentrated & heavier droplets and precipitation is the actually rain droplets falling to Earth.\n\nThe chemical process of cleaning the water to drink is the earthly cycle, but you want to go with human cleaning is the introduction of a sanitizing and killing bacteria in the water with chlorine and making it supposedly healthy with fluoride.  And a bunch of supposed microfilters to catch debris and bacteria.  Heating the water also helps clean it a little.
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Some tips...\n--Use a strong electrolyte (substances that will break up into ions [almost] completely in solution), the higher the concentration, the better.  Also you need to be careful on which electrolyte you choose.\n--Try not to use an over volttage (a voltage over the minimum necesary to electrolisize the water.  Insread, try to use a very high current, higher current = more production of gasses.  To increase current without increasing voltage, reduce resistance.\n--Place the electrodes close together to reduce internal resistance in the cell.\n\nEven by doing these things, you cannot hope to get much better than about 50% efficency doing water electrolysis, maybe 65% if you are good.\n\nThere are yahoo groups out there devoted to just such a tast as Hydrogen production through water electrolysis (I have one infact), they can also give advice based on experience.
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Water is just a liquid gas isn't it? Hydrogen and Oxygen mixed makes water. That's how.
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i built a simple one using seveal pairs of stainless steel knives and caning jars. It wasnt feasable for practical use, but it was a good demonstration of fuel cell theory. I used solution of water and baking soda. \nThe stainless steel knives were used because stainless steel contains nickle which is a catylyst for the full cell process. (platnuium is much better catylyst, but much more expensuve.) I combined the cells in seriese and ran a curent over them until bubles apear on the knives and then removed the current.\nNext i put a led light over the leads of the cells, and then it lit for about 5 seconds as it absorbed the hydrogen and converted it to electricity.\nIt operated similar to a capisitor in this setup.
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You can observe this yourself by breathing on a mirror. As the condensation evaporates from the mirror, you have completed the water cycle. Water evaporates into the atmosphere from the ocean, lakes, rivers, and from soil and plants, and even from your skin and breath. When the air reaches saturation (100% humidity) due to cooling or changes in atmospheric pressure (or both) the water condenses  from vapor to liquid (or solid) and falls to earth as rain, snow, sleet, hail, or maybe only as dew. This water may then form streams and rivers and return to the ocean where it may evaporate again into the atmosphere or it may sink into the earth where it becomes groundwater that may take many thousands of years to emerge again, or may be pumped to the surface from a well and used for drinking water or irrigation. It is a continuous cycle that may take only seconds or may take thousands of years to complete the cycle depending on the path of the water.   \n\nWhy do I get the feeling I'm answering your homework question? Now if you'd asked about delta O18 (a heavy isotope of oxygen) I could have told you how the water cycle concentrates water composed of hydrogen and heavy oxygen atoms and how this is used to study paleoclimates using ice cores and sea shells. Have a good day.
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Distillation involves boiling water and then collecting only the vapor that condenses. The condensed vapor will not include salt or most other impurities. To distill, fill a pot halfway with water. Tie a cup to the handle on the pot's lid so that the cup will hang right-side-up when the lid is upside-down (make sure the cup is not dangling into the water) and boil the water for 20 minutes. The water that drips from the lid into the cup is distilled.
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The electrolysis process seperates water into hydrogen and oxygen, and it requires a great deal of energy. Loosely speaking, if you reversed the process, you could get energy out of it, which, I believe, is what hydrogen fuel cell vehicles do.\n\nHowever, a system like this has to take seperated hydrogen and oxygen as input, not water. The reason is that the vehicle would have to run the electrolysis process forward, and then in reverse! The laws of thermodynamics tell us that energy will always be lost, and never gained, by such a process.\n\nHydrogen fuel cell vehicles would have to be supported by large electrical plants (nuclear preferably) which powered factories that ran the first part of the process. Energy is still lost in the end, but the overall cycle is highly efficient.
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Production\n\nOn Earth, semiheavy water, HDO, occurs naturally in regular water at a proportion of about 1 molecule in 3200. This means that 1 in 6400 hydrogen atoms is deuterium (see VSMOW), which is 1 part in 3200 by weight (hydrogen weight). The HDO may be separated from regular water by distillation or electrolysis and also by various chemical exchange processes, all of which exploit a kinetic isotope effect. In short, the difference in mass between the two hydrogen isotopes translates into a difference in the zero-point energy and thus into a slight difference in the speed at which the reaction proceeds. Once HDO becomes a significant fraction of the water, heavy water will become more prevalent as water molecules trade hydrogen atoms very frequently. To produce pure heavy water by distillation or electrolysis requires a large cascade of stills or electrolysis chambers, and consumes large amounts of power, so the chemical methods are generally preferred. The most important chemical method is the Girdler Sulfide process.
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Boil the water and catch the condensation on a sheet of metal foil and have it run off into a cup. Its pure water!