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Old 10-09-2008, 07:30 PM   #189 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Blister View Post
This isn't exactly true. The only water vapor that would enter the the exhaust stream would be from inefficient hydrogen burn. Burnt hydrogen is helium and is not a component in water so an inefficient burn will be the only cause of water coming out of the exhaust. The unspent (inefficiently burnt) hydrogen will automatically recombine with any surrounding oxygen making the water vapor.
So when hydrogen is burned it doesn't combine with oxygen to form H2O? I thought that was how it worked.
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