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OXYGEN FROM WATER.
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you how we can separate it from the water. Oxygen, as you will immediately imagine, exists in the atmosphere; for how should the candle burn to produce water without it?
1 Hydrogen |
8 Oxygen. |
| 9 |
| Oxygen, | 88.9 |
| Hydrogen, | 11.1 |
| Water, | 100.0 |
Such a thing would be absolutely impossible, and chemically impossible, without oxygen.
Fig. 21.
Can we get it from the air? Well, there are some very complicated and difficult processes
