Re: An oasis on the moon?

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 04:14:48 GMT

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:07:41 -0600, in a place far, far away, "Paul F.
Dietz" <dietz@dls.net> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

>Greg Kuperberg wrote:
>
>> Yes, but's a lot easier to electrolyze water than to breathe the air out
>> of a rock.
>
>Actually, that's not really the case. The particular mineral that
>would be used for oxygen production on the moon (if large supplies
>of water were not available) is ilmenite, FeTiO3. It would be
>reacted with hot hydrogen:
>
> FeTiO3 + H2 --> Fe + TiO2 + H2O
>
>The water would possibly be purified, then electrolyzed to oxygen
>and hydrogen, which would be recycled.
>
>This requires one extra step over electrolysis of water, the
>first one. Otherwise it is very similar.

Don't confuse Greg with chemistry, Paul. He's a mathematician.

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