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I did a deep dive in seeing how this is even possible, because it shouldn’t be thermodynamically, and it seems like all this “microdroplets allow for seemingly
by opportune 3y ago
I did a deep dive in seeing how this is even possible, because it shouldn’t be thermodynamically, and it seems like all this “microdroplets allow for seemingly impossible reactions by spontaneously forming peroxide” is actually caused by ozone per some researchers: https://cen.acs.org/research-integrity/reproducibility/Claims-water-turning-hydrogen-peroxide/100/web/2022/05 https://cen.acs.org/research-integrity/reproducibility/Claim...
This seems to be an open debate topic in chemistry. But I think it’s basically the case that, everybody knows it has to be ozone because the energy must be coming from somewhere, but knowing it’s ozone makes the dependent studies like this uninteresting (saying “who knows how we seemingly produced ammonia with little power, maybe this will cure climate change” gets your papers a lot more citations and recognition than “there is enough ozone in the air to produce small quantities of peroxide to use in reactions at STP”). Until it’s conclusively debunked people are gonna landgrab any paper that says “water violates all known laws of thermodynamics when you make it a microdroplet” to further their careers