What happens when you mix Carbon and Water?

Water gas! Carbon meets Steam

Blow steam over red-hot carbon and the carbon steals the oxygen from the water, leaving a mixture of two fuel gases called water gas.

The result

What it makes
Carbon monoxide + hydrogen (water gas)
Equation
C + H₂O → CO + H₂
When it happens
Only with hot steam

Fun fact from Fizzy: Before natural gas, many cities lit their street lamps with gas made like this!

🥽 Carbon monoxide is a deadly gas you cannot smell or see.

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