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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to InsanePeopleFacebook@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

The Balloons of Ancient Egypt

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The Balloons of Ancient Egypt

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to InsanePeopleFacebook@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    Wow TIL, the ancient Egyptians knew how to harness hydrogen gas! /s

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      Haha, you rube. They used helium.

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      Supposedly the Egyptians did know how to make a simple battery. Mythbusters reproduced the battery and it produced around 4 volts. It only takes 1.5 volts to produce hydrogen gas from water via electrolysis. It’s technically within the scientific capability of the Egyptians to do this, although I don’t think it likely.

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        The “Baghdad Battery” is still so far fetched. There is also the huge issue of trapping that much hydrogen, since the atoms are so small.

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        It was not Egyptian and almost certainly not a battery.

        Milo Rossi has covered this in detail in a very good video.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRZR_TeVi5Y

        He also has a follow-up to that video with an expert on the subject, an actual archaeologist who has studied the so-called battery.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19mhccQ3nVA

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        It’s capable of being used as a battery. Doesn’t mean it was.

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        deleted by creator

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      Sounds Like a bunch of hot air to me…

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        Ha! You’ve been bamboozle!

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