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FBaggins

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13. Care to try again?

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 10:40 PM

Apr 2015

You've been corrected on that in the past... and the only place that I've read it appeared to come from your imagination.

Please... let's not pretend again that anything you have to say has anything to do with "the science" if you're going to miss things as straightforward as "water molecule gassing into hydrogen and oxygen atoms" when it "overheats".

When water boils... it's still water. It doesn't break into hydrogen and oxygen. You can get it to shed electrons and shift to a plasma state at about 12,000 degrees Kelvin... but no reactor can come close to that (the uranium and plutonium would have been gases long before that point).

But goodness... wouldn't it be awesome if that were true? The hydrogen economy would have been here a century ago.

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Care to try again? FBaggins Apr 2015 #13

No, you didn't. Yes, you did. FBaggins! RobertEarl Apr 2015 #15

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