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September 13, 2013

Producing hydrogen from water with carbon/charcoal powder
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 10, 2013
In the latest advance in efforts to find an inexpensive way to make hydrogen from ordinary water - one of the keys to the much-discussed "hydrogen economy" - scientists are reporting that powder from high-grade charcoal and other forms of carbon can free hydrogen from water illuminated with laser pulses. A report on the discovery appears in ACS' Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Ikuko Akimoto and colleagues point out that traditional approaches to breaking down water, which consists of hydrog ... read more

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