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		TheRealPomax on Sept 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chemists develop new way to split water "the opposite". You need mildly polluted water to make it easier to split molecules (pure water requires way more energy to split apart). In this paper, they specifically want the impurities to accept the hydrogen.

dylan604 on Sept 6, 2023 [–]

interesting. so can you split water to make hydrogen && desalinate would be the direction of questioning in my mind

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