
Benefits of Hydrogen Water
Hydrogen Basics
I run on Hydrogen“. To see Hydrogen cars, out of which no emissions
are emitted and only clear water drips out, is still seldom in our smog-laden
cities. Yet there is no doubt that Hydrogen gas presents the most interesting
form of alternative energies of the future. For 1 kg of Hydrogen brings 33,33
kWh/kg onto the road. Neither petrol (12 kWh/kg) nor natural gas (max.
13,1 kWh/kg) can keep up. Hydrogen, with the H symbol that stands for
Hydrogenium (“The Water Producer”).
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. It makes up
75% of the total mass of our solar system. Yet on our planet Earth it is more of
a scarce good. Only 0.12% of the total mass consists of Hydrogen. Most of it
is H2O which has bonded as “energy-less” water in our oceans. Water,
H2O, is Hydrogen gas H2 which has been combusted by oxygen. This
occurs, for example, with sugar which is converted from food into energy.
So Hydrogen doesn’t only provide energy for fuel cells for cars, but also for
the cells in the body. The H Hydrogen atom is made up of one positively
charged nucleus, the proton, which is orbited by a negatively charged
electron. The smallest of all atoms is also called “nascent” Hydrogen: That
means “hydrogen in its birth phase”, for an H-atom does not stay alone for
long; it bonds with a second H-atom to make what we usually call
Hydrogen, H2… A further description for this Hydrogen atom is “Hydrogen
radical”.
Often Hydrogen gas H2 is confused with the Hydrogen ion H+. This
corresponds to an H-atom without an electron; in short it is a single proton.
Positively charged Hydrogen ions are the measure of “acidity”. They occur
by the splitting off of a hydroxide ion (OH-) from water (H2O). If there are
more hydroxide ions in an aqueous solution, it is alkaline, if there are more
H+ ions (protons), then it is acidic.
Negatively charged Hydrogen ions (Hydride ions) theoretically also
exist. Yet they are so unstable that they only occur as compounds.