{"id":145519,"date":"2022-09-03T05:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T10:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/aluminum-gallium-powder-bubbles-hydrogen-out-of-dirty-water"},"modified":"2022-09-03T05:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T10:23:33","slug":"aluminum-gallium-powder-bubbles-hydrogen-out-of-dirty-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/aluminum-gallium-powder-bubbles-hydrogen-out-of-dirty-water","title":{"rendered":"Aluminum-gallium powder bubbles hydrogen out of dirty water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aluminum-gallium-powder-bubbles-hydrogen-out-of-dirty-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need any energy input, and it bubbles hydrogen like crazy. I\u2019ve never seen anything like it,\u201d said UCSC Professor Scott Oliver, describing a new aluminum-gallium nanoparticle powder that generates H<sub>2<\/sub> when placed in water \u2013 even seawater.<\/p>\n<p>Aluminum by itself rapidly oxidizes in water, stripping the O out of H<sub>2<\/sub>O and releasing hydrogen as a byproduct. This is a short-lived reaction though, because in most cases the metal quickly attains a microscopically thin coating of aluminum oxide that seals it off and puts an end to the fun.<\/p>\n<p>But chemistry researchers at UC Santa Cruz say they\u2019ve found a cost-effective way to keep the ball rolling. Gallium has long been known to remove the aluminum oxide coating and keep the aluminum in contact with water to continue the reaction, but previous research had found that aluminum-heavy combinations had a limited effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need any energy input, and it bubbles hydrogen like crazy. I\u2019ve never seen anything like it,\u201d said UCSC Professor Scott Oliver, describing a new aluminum-gallium nanoparticle powder that generates H2 when placed in water \u2013 even seawater. Aluminum by itself rapidly oxidizes in water, stripping the O out of H2O and releasing hydrogen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}