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OXYGEN FROM WATER.
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you how we can separate it from the water. Oxygen, as you will immediately imagine, exists in the atmosphere; for how should the candle burn to produce water without it?



1
Hydrogen
 
8
Oxygen.
9
Oxygen, 88.9
Hydrogen, 11.1
Water, 100.0

Such a thing would be absolutely impossible, and chemically impossible, without oxygen. Fig. 21. Can we get it from the air? Well, there are some very complicated and difficult processes