Can you burn water?

[Howard]

If you dissociate the elements of water's composition, you can burn them and produce the exact same amount of water. How much heat does it take to dissociate the H2 and O? I don't even know if it can be done.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: Amused
Only if you're a really bad cook.

 

[sao123]

Water will burn in a grease fire... hence why you have to use baking soda to put it out.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: sao123
Water will burn in a grease fire... hence why you have to use baking soda to put it out.

goddamnit..wtf.

 

[henryay]

Slightly different:
Pure/Distilled Water doesn't boil
Tap water does

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: sao123
Water will burn in a grease fire... hence why you have to use baking soda to put it out.

No it doesn't, it spreads the flaming grease around because the grease floats across the wet surfaces.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: sao123
Water will burn in a grease fire... hence why you have to use baking soda to put it out.

WRONG.

Seriously, that's incorrect. All it does is sink, boil, then splatter the flammable oil around.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Throw pure potassium in some water.

I'd imagine it'd be pretty hard to get that outside of a lab of some sorts. Might as well shoot for some sodium too.

But hey, they said, "can it be done"? It most certainly can.

 

[keldysh]

Baiting hook with sodium lump is great gag to play on fisherman!

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: JToxic

Originally posted by: thechinesehero
how old is your sister? and may i ask what nationality you are?

Racist?

You want another one of THOSE threads?

 

[EyeMWing]

You see, a good thorough burning something leaves behind only substances that cannot be burnt. Water (in the form of vapor due to the heat) is one of those substances.

 

[classy]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
I asked my teacher if you could melt dirt and she didn't know.

Yes you can melt dirt. If you ever see the ground after a lightening strike the dirt actually melts and like crystalizes together from the intense heat. And no you can't burn water beccuse it evaporates.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Throw pure potassium in some water.

I'd imagine it'd be pretty hard to get that outside of a lab of some sorts. Might as well shoot for some sodium too.

But hey, they said, "can it be done"? It most certainly can.

I wouldn't call the reaction between an alkali metal and water "burning".

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: walla
You can burn dehydrated water.

🙂

best post in this thread....except for those good intelectual ones.....

 

[Ryan]

I burnt no-bake cheesecake once.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
I asked my teacher if you could melt dirt and she didn't know.

I think thats bascially what lava is

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: Quasmo
I asked my teacher if you could melt dirt and she didn't know.

I think thats bascially what lava is

well lava is molten rock, which is minerals

dirt is organic material, water, air, and bits of rock or minerals otherwise known as gravel.....so yes and no.......

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Son of a N00b

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: Quasmo
I asked my teacher if you could melt dirt and she didn't know.

I think thats bascially what lava is

well lava is molten rock, which is minerals

dirt is organic material, water, air, and bits of rock or minerals otherwise known as gravel.....so yes and no.......

Oh i guess i wasn't thinking of dirt as the kind you see in a garden.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Actualy its quite strange that water doesn't burn, considering that its made of two chemicals that by themselves are flamable/explosive.

They would burn, but the water puts them out.

:laugh:

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Actualy its quite strange that water doesn't burn, considering that its made of two chemicals that by themselves are flamable/explosive.

Not really.. the chemical bonding changes the physical properties of the resultant product. kind of like how we can breath oxygen and hydrogen but not water...

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Amused
Only if you're a really bad cook.

My wife found a way. :disgust:

 

[krcat1]

Yes.

Burnt is a taste sensation. If the water tastes funny after you boil it, then, is a sense, it is burnt.

 

[keldysh]

Actualy its quite strange that water doesn't burn, considering that its made of two chemicals that by themselves are flamable/explosive.

The same can be said about many compounds. Take common salt for instance. Try breathing chlorine or eating sodium! Yet everyone put this (sodium chloride) on foodstuff.

 

[ruffilb]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Actualy its quite strange that water doesn't burn, considering that its made of two chemicals that by themselves are flamable/explosive.

They would burn, but the water puts them out.

PWNT!

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Actualy its quite strange that water doesn't burn, considering that its made of two chemicals that by themselves are flamable/explosive.

Not really.. the chemical bonding changes the physical properties of the resultant product. kind of like how we can breath oxygen and hydrogen but not water...

sodium chloride is another good example.

Damn, I missed keldysh's post. 🙁