Hydrogen Balloon 3

I am working on a follow-up to the Hydrogen Balloon.

I have so far taken a conical flask, glass tube, rubber tube and a beaker which is half full of water. The idea being the reaction takes place in the flask, and the Hydrogen is passed in to the beaker to show the gas has been transferred.

As with most things, it is a case of trial and error, when developing what you are doing.

The set-up is similar to below

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#Chemistry,#Gas,#Hydrogen,#Experiment

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Hydrogen Balloons

In an effort to come up with some interesting STEM demonstrations, I have now turned to making Hydrogen Gas,

Hydrogen is the lightest element, on Saturday I was at the STEAM café. I know that I can put Magnesium Ribbon in to a Conical Flask of White Vinegar and this produces Hydrogen gas. I tried to collect this using a balloon, it worked. However, we lost the balloon as it came away from the flask, but as a proof of concept, we know the idea works.

I have now tried this again at home, I don't have much white vinegar left, so I would assume this is a mix of Hydrogen or just Hydrogen as it is lighter. Either way, the following set up will produce the gas and inflate a balloon.

What I need to do now is find a way to seal up the balloon without losing the collected gas.

In theory it should be possible to use a lighted splint to ignite the balloon and Hydrogen within. This is DANGEROUS so DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.

We know the hydrogen is in the balloon as it should rise if let go and sealed, where as a balloon full of air will fall as air (a mixture of gasses) is heavier.

The above is a picture of the inflated Balloon, as a proof of concept again it inflated, I need to use more white vinegar so there is less air in the flask to begin with, so more change of collecting the actual Hydrogen gas properly.

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#Chemistry,#Gas,#Hydrogen,#Experiment

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What is the UK Playing at?

It seems despite the endless warnings on impending climate collapse, the call for immediate halt to fossil fuels. The UK Prime minister has decided to issue 100's of new Licenses to extract oil and gas from the North Sea.

This appears to be so we can increase our energy security. This of course is garbage, we can produce our energy needs using renewable means, we just need to get this capacity connected to the national grid. We just need to ban the sale of gas appliances, retrain people in the newer tech so we can minimise job losses and find more sustainable ways of doing things.

At the same time, we are trying to tell other countries to cut down on fossil fuels, we need to lead by example.

In the meantime it seems claims the heatwaves are false are being spread via mainstream social media. From this it looks like X / Twitter is at the centre of all this.

This is why I use fedi, intelligent people, having intelligent conversations and discussions, encouraging critical thinking and understanding of the science, hence recent posts on here about theory and hypothesis.

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#UK,#Oil,#Gas,#Climate,#misinformation,#Policies,#WeNeedToActNow

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