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Water As A Fuel

 Water As A Fuel BROWN’S GAS LEGEND HHO: It’s not easy to establish how Meyer’s car was meant to work, except that it involved a fuel cell that was able to split water using less energy than was released by recombination of the elements.  Dig a little deeper and you will soon find the legendary Brown’s Gas — a modern chemical unicorn to rival phlogistion  (a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion –  phlogistion ) — in which hydrogen and oxygen are combined in a non-aqueous state called ‘oxyhydrogen’, in the same proportions in which they are found in water (2:1). Brown’s gas was allegedly used as a vehicle fuel by its discoverer,  Australian inventor Yull Brown .

Hydrogen

 Hydrogen Hydrogen History Yull Brown: Henry Cavendish (1766) was the first to recognize that hydrogen gas was a discrete substance,  and that it produces water when burned, the property for which it was later named.    Henry Cavendish was a British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. Cavendish is noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called “inflammable air”. He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper “On Factitious Airs”.  Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish’s experiment and gave the element its name. In Greek, hydrogen means “water-former”. Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.  He is widely considered in popular literature as the “father of modern chemistry”....