Re: when hydrogen is burnt



analyst41@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

is water the only end-product ?

or will there be trace amounts of unpleasant surprises like h2o2 ?

(sorry if this is a dumb question).

H2O2 is not a particularly unpleasant surprise
because life produces it and has an enzyme that
very effectively destroys it.

A hot hydrogen-air flame makes NO and NO2,
but hydrogen burns well in lean, cool flames.
Some discussion of this in
http://www.foi.se/upload/rapporter/reducing-environmental-impact.pdf



--- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan
Boron: internal combustion, nuclear cachet http://tinyurl.com/4xt8g
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