Edit: wow okay, I did not expect to wake up to THIS. Of course my most popular post would be a dumb stoner question.
Thankyou so much for the awards and the answers, I can sleep a little easier now
In: Chemistry
We CAN.
Now, it’s not very often in nature you come across pure hydrogen and pure oxygen. But if you do have pure hydrogen and pure oxygen and you put them together in the right ratio, it’s very easy to get them to form water. In fact, it’s hard to PREVENT them from forming water.
It’s a common 9th grade science experiment, you run electricity through water in a certain way and one electrode has bubbles of pure oxygen forming on it and the other pure hydrogen. You catch each in their own test-tube. You combine the two. A very small spark will cause them to smoosh together and form water. Thing is, sometimes you don’t even need a spark, sometimes just the right (or wrong) type of shaking will do the trick.
Now, in the process of forming water a lot of heat is generated, which has the potential to be very damaging.
Also, pure oxygen tends to burn super easy so there’s not a lot of pure oxygen around. And pure hydrogen tends to react with stuff a lot too. So you don’t bump into pure forms of them very often in nature. And making pure forms of them is relatively difficult and expensive.
**DUE TO REQUESTS – VIDEOS**
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ULHoKWZag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ULHoKWZag) – an animation of what is going on
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j8gE4oZ9FQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j8gE4oZ9FQ) – a guy using 2 thumbtacks and a 9 volt battery to do this – but he isn’t catching the gas
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV8KbQyF228](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV8KbQyF228) – a guy mixing O and H in front of a flame, it goes POP and they zoom in on the small droplets of water formed on the inside.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJEDe_HUcw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJEDe_HUcw) – a guy builds a medium simple electrolysis set, then fills plastic bags with Oxygen and Hydrogen – then lets them float around.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFR9zUGt2C4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFR9zUGt2C4) – a very classic ‘9th grade science’ experiment version
**Wow, this question has received a TON of awards – gold, silver, hugs, wholesome, heck some guy sent me some art. I am amazed, this is very unexpected, I was just trying to be helpful.**
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