Electrolysis in steam vs liquid

[alexlab79]

hello, i have tested many year(5) ago HV HF circuit from my lifter experiment (20kv 35khz pulsed at 100hz) in steam of water in transparent glass pipe...result: beautifull blue and yellow fire...but i have see  blue HV spark go to my steam source(electric boiler) at 2 feet of the electrode and reset the  breaker of my labs!

P.S scuse me for my bad english, i speak in french

[mscoffman]

This thread is somewhat humorous;

Electrolysis means using electrical conduction to separate
water into it's components....One of the foundations of this
is that you need to make the water conductive to do so.
This means adding material to be ionized to the water
because ions make up the electrical conduction path.

Will heating the water make it easier to electrolyze? â€" obviously,
Yes. But turning it into stream defeats the ionization current
mechanism. (and probably the definition of electrolytic
decomposition as well).

But what do we know about water droplets...well, they tend
to create static electricity, when they bump into each other, and
since there are no current conduction paths, it builds up. Leading
to alexlab79 saw in his apparatus. A Kind of a steam and AC
capacitive coupled Van De Graf HV Generator. Neat!

:S:MarkSCoffman

[sparks]

     We need to remember that you can have steam at very low temperatures if the reaction vessel is held under vacuum conditions.  If the vapor is subjected to ionizing frequencies in the uv spectrum and the resultant free electrons are removed from the reaction vessel a higher yield of hydrogen and ozone are accomplished than by simple electrolysis.  Worthy of research is the way in which plants split water.