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| Question: | What is the easiest way to extract hydrogen from water and the safest way to store it? |
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Electrolysis (which means splitting using electricity) of water is the method for producing hydrogen from water.
The safest way to commercially store it would be to use a palladium "sponge", because palladium adsorbs several hundred times it's own volume in hydrogen. One would need to produce a compound with a very high surface area which has a thin coating of palladium. This type of material is commonly used as a catalyst in chemical processes.
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