Jinra321

does anyone do some quack experiments with their water cooling to see which liquid cools best? My friend put H2O2 in his w/c and got temp to 25c idle, its a gaming rig but i dont know the specs.

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prostate05

He put hydrogen peroxide in there, hmm that sounds odd to me but maybe i dont know somethign you guys do.

PaulB

Isnt that heavy water? i mean like what germany wanted to use to make an H bomb? like its radio-active isnt it?


Oh is that all it is?

Jinra321

his justification was "hey, it keeps it clean!"

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Jinra321

its the stuff you put on cuts lol

EDIT: fear the german bombs! they'll disinfect your cuts! >_<

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prostate05

Yeah thats funny, i guess it would keep it clean.

pillowstuffer

Heavy water is water with ditritium (hydrogen with a neutron), instead of a regular neutronless hydrogen atoms. Or something like that.

PaulB

yeah that sounds more like it pillowstuffer! got confused thanx for setting me staight.... So is there any reason why h2o2 would hold more heat energy?

Lando95

I would think that H202 would not transfer heat as well as water, but I don't know for certain.

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Goldenpi

Hydrogen Peroxide (H(subscript 2)O(subscript 2)) would make a very, very bad coolent. It breaks down into water and hydrogen when exposed to light - its always stored in opaque or dark-brown bottles. The same happens if heated. You wont have any algae problems, at least, but I dont know if it will react with metals. And you really dont want to cut youself while working with it - it strings, and produces lots of hydrogen on contact with blood.

Heavy water ((super-2)H(sub-2)O) will perform exactly the same as normal water. Chemicly identical, heat capacity almost the same, viscosity similar, density similar (Its very slightly heavier than normal water). Its not radioactive.

Also, though there was a ship carrying heavy-water to a german plant sunk in WW2, its not entirely clear what they were planning to do with it. The german atomic research department was tiny - they had one, but it was nothing compared to what the US was doing. The german plan was to very quickly take over all or europe - they didn't see any need to put resources into research that wouldn't give them a bomb for years. They intended to be the uncontested rulers of Europe by that time.