Is there a way to destroy water? End the cycle. No turning into any other element, just gone.
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If you annihilate it with antimatter then yes, you’d convert it into energy.
If you mean chemically then you can convert water into many other chemicals though they may tend to react and make water again.
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Water is destroyed all the time. Water is also created all the time. When you breathe, you take in oxygen (O2) which your body combines with carbohydrates (sugar, C6H12O6), creating carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) in the process.
Most of the combustion (burning) you witness releases H2O as a side product.
Put water under an electric current and you’ll release hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, destroying the original water.
These things happen all. the. time.
They are not unusual.
Practically? No.
If you want to do it to a miniscule portion you could split the water into oxygen and hydrogen with electrolysis and then use the hydrogen in one of the experimental fusion reactors.
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I can never help but think the posters of questions like this have unsettling plans you’re all enabling.
No
The law of conservation of mass states that matter cannot be created or destroyed. The hydrogen and oxygen molecules that make up the water are not able to be “just gone”
One of the most important laws of chemistry is the law of conservation: mass, and energy for that matter, can NOT be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred into different forms. So to answer your question, no. You can not “destroy” water in the sense that poof it’s gone forever. You can however convert it into another form that is no longer water with energy or additional mass – however it may go back to water again. That’s the beauty of the universe we live in!
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