DID YOU KNOW THAT:
ANTOINE LAURENT DE LAVOSIER
He named the gas in 1787 as hydro-gene (water producer) using the Greek words “Hydor” (water) and “Genes” (to produce). Before, Henry Cavendish, English Physicist and Chemist had named it “Flammable Air”
HYDROGEN
It is the first element of the periodic table and the simplest month. Identified with the letter H from the Latin Hydrogenium
JULES VERNE
He said in 1874 that water would be the coal of the future in his book The Mysterious Island. He wrote that the separation of water into its components, Hydrogen and Oxygen via Electrolysis would generate the energy of the future
APOLLO SPACE PROGRAM
In the 1960s hydrogen was the fuel used to send space rockets to the moon and the first passenger cars were also produced with hydrogen battery prototypes
BASIC PROPERTIES
– Hydrogen is the most common substance in the universe and the most important source of energy in the stars
– Hydrogen on planet Earth is usually combined with Oxygen H2O (water)
– Under normal conditions, hydrogen gas has neither color nor smell. It is not toxic
– Tea High flammability, great diffusivity, very low density, very low boiling point (-252.76ºC) so it is almost always in a gaseous state
– Hydrogen has the highest energy yield per Kg (Figure 13)
