how to burn water

BS, ten bucks say that was ethanol/water mixture (flame is too tame to be pure ethanol, and wrong color) in the cup not water,
 
Its a flaming sambuca. After a nice Italian meal....delicious.

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Tap water is not conductive enough to support electrolytic production, at least not with AA cells. Besides what happen to hydrogen balloon when you let go, for that same reason hydrogen won't stay there for you to light up. ;)
 
jzmtl said:
Tap water is not conductive enough to support electrolytic production, at least not with AA cells. Besides what happen to hydrogen balloon when you let go, for that same reason hydrogen won't stay there for you to light up. ;)
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Could we dissolve salt into the water to make it more conductive?
 
I get the feeling that if you could make water burn, we all have known about it a long time ago.

Unless there is some vast consipracy to cover up this fact.

I know there is a vast conspiracy to suppress my perpetual motion machine. Dick Cheney, the Knights Templar, and the people at Area 51 are in cahoots to keep it a secret.
 
marcinek said:
I get the feeling that if you could make water burn, we all have known about it a long time ago.

Unless there is some vast consipracy to cover up this fact.

I know there is a vast conspiracy to suppress my perpetual motion machine. Dick Cheney, the Knights Templar, and the people at Area 51 are in cahoots to keep it a secret.
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Electrolysis is a well known process, Its how we extract most of our hydrogen for hydrogen cars. But that still is one route away from oil...
 
Hydrogen gives a yellow flame. Alcohol is a very transparent blue. It looks more like rubbing alcohol to me.
 
Keith_H said:
Could we dissolve salt into the water to make it more conductive?
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I'm not positive on salt, used sulfuric acid when I did it in school, but I don't see why not. I'm not sure if AA cells will provide enough current to do it thou. You'll probably have better results by putting the cells in series, and use wire to dip into water, instead of putting cells inside. Even then it'll be painfully slow, you'll probably see a couple of bubbles stuck to end of wire and that's it.
 
That's not water, it's alcohol. If H2 was being produced, you would see bubbles coming from the batteries. Plus the H2 would burn all at once, just like when you set a match to a balloon full of H2.
 
well thanks a bunch everyone i didn't try it but i thought it was a :jerkit: i've learned so much from you all in a short time but never heard of this . one question when you tryed it did you make sure to put the + and - at diffrent sides like in a radio or flashlight. i did see how to make fire from water but it had to do with putting it in a clear bag and make it into a mag. glass. it does work that way.
http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/fire/water/index.html
 
When I did the " put out a match quickly experiment" the batteries landed in series, the ends were opposite i mean.
 
Pure BS. It is not electrolysis. Hydrogen being lighter than air would evaporate. Hydrogen burns almost an invisible blue. Also no gas bubbles. Probably mixed in alcohol for some sort of "magic trick". If it was that easy we would all be burning water in our cars. The guy is now probably dead, killed by ninjas sent by GM and Exon.
 
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