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I feel that there's some truth to it as well, honestly. I just don't believe that chemical reactions are going to stop happening according to the laws of physics because someone found a way to introduce water into their engine as basic components.

The fact remains that if you put H, H, and O into a combustion environment, the end result is Water. The remaining O molecule (becuase in the absence of any other molecule, it will bond to another O) will still be part of the same count that originally was there.

In other words, if we count 30,000 molecules of H2O, 20,000 are H, and 10,000 are O.

What you end up with while they're isolated is 10,000 H2's, and 5,000 O2's. Still the same 30,000 basic molecules, right?

Ok, now lets oxidize 5,000H2's in the combustion chamber with 2,500 O2's... so we've still got 15,000 Base molecules that aren't combined... and 15,000 that just were.

The math just doesn't allow for the presence of excess oxygen, unless it would have been there from the start.

What happens when you burn a hydrocarbon? The hydrogen oxidizes, making water. The carbon oxidizes, making carbonic oxides. (CO and CO2) and the Nitrogen oxidizes, making NOx and N2O. Of course there are other particulates, but everything that already existed in the air took another form already, and used all the available oxygen to do so. If anything, the end result should look rich already, due to unburned fuel from oxygen starvation.

That's how I'm seeing the process. Feel free, anyone, to show me "the light".