Hydrogen
material · 1766 · Industrial Revolution
A light gas; it filled airships and fuels rockets.
Inventors: Henry Cavendish, Mikhail Lomonosov, Antoine Lavoisier.
Principles and materials it uses
- Electrolysis — uses. Hydrogen is produced by electrolysis of water.
- Steam methane reforming — uses. The main way of producing hydrogen.
Where it is used
- Airship — is used in. Zeppelins were filled with hydrogen.
- Liquid-propellant rocket engine — is used in. Hydrogen is an efficient fuel.
- Fuel cell — is used in. The fuel is hydrogen.
- Ammonia — is material for. Hydrogen.
- Hydrogenation — is used in. Hydrogen.
- Saturn V — is used in. Hydrogen stages.
- Weather balloon — is material for. Filled with hydrogen or helium.
- Bubble chamber — is material for. The working medium is superheated liquid hydrogen.
- Hydrogen car — is material for. The fuel is hydrogen.