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By Dean
Mill Valley Middle School

"In your garden don't only use nitrogen, combine it with hydrogen"


Uses

Each year America uses over three million cubic feet of hydrogen a year. Hydrogen has the most uses out of all the elements. Some of the main uses for hydrogen are: ammonia, the hydrogen fuel cell, hydrodealkylation, rocket fuel, welding, filling balloons. Hydrogen could be used a lot more in the future if enough funding is given to use a hydrogen based society. The only two problems with this type of country is the high cost of hydrogen and if the general public would accept it.


Periodic Table Facts

Hydrogen is the first element on the periodic table. It has an atomic number of 1, which means hat it has one proton and one electron. Its atomic mass is 1, so it doesn't have any neutrons. It is in period 1 which means that it is not a noble gas. Since Hydrogen has only one electron, it does not fill up its out valance energy level. Hydrogen is a gas and a nonmetal.

In the future the Hydrogen Fuel Cell will be used to power our economy. This car is powered by hydrogen, the stuff coming out of the car is gas, not exhaust.



This is hydrogen bomb, the most powerful bomb in the world


History

Hydrogen was discovered in 1766 by Henry Cavendish in England. The word hydrogen comes from the Greek word for "water forming."


Compounds and Isotopes

As well as having the most uses, hydrogen also combines with the most elements and is the only element with its isotopes named. Hydrogen combines to form: hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen iodide, hydrogen sulfide, and hydrogen telluride. Hydrogen has three major isotopes: Protium, Deuterium, and Tritium. For every 6000 ordinary hydrogen atom, there is one Deuterium atom.


Things You May Not Know

  • Melting point - 14.66 k
  • Heat of fusion - 0.05869
  • Boiling point - 20.4 k
  • Heat atomization - 218 Kj/mol
  • Hardness - mohs
  • Natural source - water
  • Hydrogen in other languages
  • - Latin: Hydrogenium
  • - Italian: Idrogene


The Wonders of Hydrogen

Hydrogen makes up over 90% and is responsible for powering the universe. Hydrogen started all elements. It makes up the sun, which gives us our light. Hydrogen is lighter than air and 10 times less dense than water.

 

 


Glossary

  1. Hydrodealkylation: a type of hydrogenation in fuel refining, used to methyl
  2. Ammonia: Fertilizer, hydrogen and nitrogen make up ammonia
  3. Fuel cell: Hydrogen fuel cell is a technology that could allow us to use huge amounts of hydrogen power for a cheap price
  4. Heat of fusion: the heat required to change a solid into a liquid with no temperature change
  5. K: Kelvin is a way to say the temperature. Kelvin measures temperature based on the average kinetic energy per molecule of perfect gas. The zero of Kelvin is -273.15
  6. Heat atomization: energy needed to decompose one mole of a certain substance into atoms.
  7. Mohs: A scale in which hardness is measured
  8. Hydrogen chloride: Compound of hydrogen and chlorine
  9. Hydrogen fluoride: Compound of hydrogen and fluorine
  10. Hydrogen iodide: Compound of hydrogen and iodine
  11. Hydrogen sulfide: Compound of hydrogen and sulfur
  12. Hydrogen telluride: Compound of hydrogen and tellurium


Bibliography

 

 


This rocket is fueled by
Hydrogen fuel.