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What I want to show is that CO2 + H2O > CH2O + O2.
Why she has a PhD.
if my Bessler build works
That reaction goes the other way. Formaldehyde is combustible.
If you know that someone has not much knowledge of chemistry, why do you say such thing ?
@All, I guess time will tell if I am right or not. As far as both Bessler's Wheel and my experiment goes, I'm guaranteed to fail if I don't try.
My guess is he said it to help the guy understand.
So why do he not give directly the full explanation instead of these mysterious sentences ?
If you know that someone has not much knowledge of chemistry, why do you say such thing ?Why do you do this?
these mysterious sentences ?
Not everyone thinks chemistry is a mystery.
It is useless (scientificaly speaking, socialy speaking it can help to form a clan of course) to say something that only the one who already know understand.
When Bored Chemist said that formaldehyde is combustible, he means that formaldehyde reacts with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and water. That is the exact opposite of the supplied equation (which he also already said).
Some chemical reactions can occur in only one direction. These reactions are called irreversible reactions. The reactants can change to the products, but the products cannot change back to the reactants. These reactions are like making a cake. The ingredients of a cake—such as eggs and flour—are the reactants. They are mixed together and baked to form the cake, which is the product (see Figure below). The cake can’t be “unbaked” and “unmixed” to change it back to the raw eggs, flour, and other ingredients. So making a cake is irreversible.Baking a cake is an irreversible reactionCombustion reactions are generaly irreversible.
So it was mysterious for you too.
Combustion reactions are generaly irreversible.
No, I understood it perfectly well.
He never said otherwise.