From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 16:18:26 MST
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:25:02PM -0800, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> Does anybody else out there have any knowledge about this?
> Is it possible for a monoatomic mixture of H & O to be stable
> (i.e. not decay into H2 and O2)?
To quote from
http://members.axion.net/~enrique/oxidizeroxygen.html
With extreme cleanliness, a mix of a third ozone and two thirds
oxygen could be used safely. Monoatomic oxygen is barely stable
in the solid form at twenty degrees Kelvin, as of 2001 it
hasn't even been used in laboratory rocket engines.
Monoatomic oxygen seems to be very unstable on its own, and
mostly exists when the pressure is near vaccum. I seem to
recall that monoatomic hydrogen is a bit more stable, but still
very unstable at any real pressure. Some Nasa studies have
speculated about using it for propulsion if it could be done,
as has Robert Forward.
And most google hits with "monoatomic oxygen" and "monoatomic
hydrogen" go to crackpot energy devices. The brown gas is
probably intestinal, so to say.
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