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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Thomas Koenig  wrote:   
      
   >Peter Fairbrother  schrieb:   
   >   
   >> Lithium (peroxide) canisters do not just absorb carbon dioxide, they   
   >> also produce oxygen:   
   >>   
   >> 2 Li2O2 + 2 CO2 ? 2 Li2CO3 + O2   
   >   
   >Actually, it is water that is being produced.   
   >   
   >The net reaction is   
   >   
   >2 LiO + CO2 --> Li2CO3 + H2O   
      
   You start with two lithium, four oxygen and a carbon.  You end with   
   two lithium, four oxygen, a carbon and a hydrogen.   
      
   There's a serious problem here.   
      
   >which is understandable because water is a much lower energy.   
      
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