Thermal cracking of water at engine exhaust gas temperatures

[zzzz]

your exp so interesting and so via for me,
I'm working in steel mill that have casting machine.
Normal process, water is inject directly to hot steel ( around 1300-1500 degree C but 1530+up at liquid core )
to cool down and make liquid steel steel more solid

If your exp. was happen here, I will not imagin for.

So temp and iron oxide will not be only factor for this incidient,
it must have something else,
so keep working on. please.

regard,
zzzz

[Jokker]

Too bad man ...

U need at least 2000 C 

900 C will make water just vaporise .

[Dr.Greenthumb]

check out this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czoxOqZ8rxk
burning super heated steam.

[zzzz]

but from your exp,
it relate to some incident here,

when steel arc furnace have water leakage from water cool panel we alway have small explosion, we conclud like this, if water can go under liquid steel, like water contain in gas tube drop in to furnace, it can explod from thermal expansion and phase of water rapid change to vapor. but have some time explosion from water were too strong, like a boom. we don't understand what happen, so we still think it is water expansion boom...
until i found your exp, so please working on, thanks in advances,

zzzz

[plasmastudent77]

From what I understand, the metal oxide ( i.e. rust ) actually works as a catalyst and lowers the cracking temperature to the 1000 degree mark.

But heres what gave me the original idea:  http://www.rexresearch.com/celis/celis.htm