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aaaantoine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

In very rare cases (nuclear fusion) the water is destroyed into its primitive elements

Simple electrolysis will split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

Nuclear reactions will change the atoms, but you don’t have to go that far to break down water.

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Little_mouse@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You don’t even need to go that far. Water used in concrete is locked in as a structural component. That’s why concrete is described as ‘setting’ instead of just ‘drying’.

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MightBeAlpharius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s pretty easy to break water down, but it’s also super easy to make it - just burn anything organic.

Usually you can’t see the water being formed, but there’s actually a really common example: car exhausts on a cold day. If you notice a bit of water dripping out of the tailpipe of the car in front of you at a red light, that’s actually the moisture in the exhaust fumes condensing on the cold tailpipe.

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