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Originally Posted by C1ay
No. Brown's gas is what you get when you electrolize water without separating the hydrogen and oxygen, but not a premix made from the isolated monatomic elements themselves. It is mainly diatomic hydrogen and oxygen that is very dangerous though. It does have some applications in welding and fusing materials together. You don't want people filling fuels tanks in their vehicles with it though. A fender-bender could become pretty violent.
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You are right. I have seen big explosions originate from hydrogen-oxygen perfect mixtures.
But they are also a very nice blasts.
The mixture is not all that viable as fuel.
It's better to do the car engine way of just mixing before ignition...