Is there a way to destroy water? End the cycle. No turning into any other element, just gone.

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Is there a way to destroy water? End the cycle. No turning into any other element, just gone.

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

If you’re excluding chemical reactions like elecrolysis (splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen), then your only option really is to annihilate it with anti-water molecules (2 anti-hydrogen atoms bound to an anti-oxygen atom). You’d get a bunch of gamma photons, some neutrinos, and some mesons. But there’s no way to make anything disappear into *nothing* without *something* happening.