[fproy2222]

Years ago,I talked to a friend that made the oxygen for atomic powered submarines. He said that the hydrogen and oxygen mixture, that that was made from the water was so explosive that extreme care was taken when making oxygen.

Anybody know if this is true or not.

I would hate to blow up my car while driving down the freeway.

[thackney]

Browns Gas is Oxygen and Hydrogen combined in the most perfect ratio for complete combustion. Hydrogen by itself is not combustible until exposed to oxygen like available in the air. A leak from a hydrogen tank can ignite but a sensor failure inside the tank cannot cause ignition until oxygen gets to it.

Browns Gas (the gas created by electrolysis if the cathode and anode are not separated into separate chambers) is highly explosive.

[AmericaUnited]

You would not be storing the H + O but so it would not be a problem.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s dangerous if not in a tank. :’) Oxygen burns. My dear old dad maintained to the day he died that oxygen (he was on the machine or the tank for a year or more) only supports combustion, but that’s not true. I’ve seen someone (not dad) who insisted on smoking while wearing the snout, and the oxygen ignited and gave him cool flame decals on his face.