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William Maurice Borthwick

Hydrogen

William Maurice Borthwick

LDC Chamber Manager, Director of LDC - Training, ex RAN diver, electrician and all round great guy, Bill Borthwick shares with us his new found love for the elusive gas that is Hydrogen...

I like the word hydrogen; it rolls off the tongue and makes one think of clean energy and oceans blue. As a matter of fact the name of the element in Greek means "water-former", which comes from its reaction to burning. Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe, it has a molecular weight of 2, which makes it the lightest of the elements and production is comparatively cheap. Production is generally either done industrially through steam reformation of hydrocarbons or by other, more expensive processes, such as the electrolysis of water...

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