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What ways are there to make this possible, /sci/?

>> No.4882989

ms paint

>> No.4882990

You have to supply energy, and catalysts can make the minimum required energy lower (but not lower than the enthalpy change inherent in the reaction).

Energy: Heat, laser pulse...
Catalyst: Look it up. Seriously, there's lots of literature on catalysts for this kind of thing.

>> No.4882992

Seriously monatomic oxygen? stupid.

>> No.4882994

>>4882992
it's not like we can't work it out into O^2

>> No.4883000 [DELETED] 

Is this a thermodynamically feasible reaction?

>> No.4883001

>>4883000
Not at room temperature, if you want it to occur spontaneously.

>> No.4883010

Continue the combustion to make CO2 then put the damn gaz in sun light, any green plant will make it into O2 and reducted carbon.

>> No.4883026

I don't know if you can reduce carbon monoxide directly to carbon and diatomic oxygen.

You can reduce carbon monoxide to methanol using various metal catalysts. Syngas is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide that is used to generate methanol on an industrial scale.

>> No.4883037 [DELETED] 

>>4883001

If it's not feasible, then it won't happen at any temperature.

>> No.4883056

>>4883037
Heat to a few hundred million degrees, all molecular bonds disintegrate and the atoms zip around as ions. Problem solved for pretty much every molecule there ever was.

>> No.4883062

Catalytic converters turn CO to CO2, going to mono-atomic O is damn tricky.

>> No.4883067

>>4883037

>If it's not feasible, then it won't happen at any temperature.

Sure the Biochemistrie is absolutely not based on bonding unfeasible/feasible reaction.

>> No.4883072 [DELETED] 

In this reaction, there is an increase in entropy, therefore it is feasible, right? Or am I missing something?

>> No.4883073

Usually monoatomic oxygen occur in the upper atmosphere where UV light is more prevalent, usually UVC light, has enough energy to split the molecule into oxygen free radicals. This is how ozone is formed O2 + O -> O3

>> No.4883079

>>4883072
Yes, you are missing a working knowledge of thermodynamics and/or chemsitry

>> No.4883100

>>4883072

Thermodynamically infeasible != impossible. The equilibrium will lie very far to the C≡O side, sure, but some of the molecules will dissociate. You can use this to do the reaction even if it thermodynamically infeasible as long as you can stop the C and O atoms from reforming C≡O, as eventually all of the C≡O molecules will dissociate. Obviously, that's the tricky part.