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.