Most fuel cells in the world today run on hydrogen. However, as the fuel gets more complex, this oxidation process becomes vastly more complicated. Once carbon atoms are in the fuel, carbon monoxide poisoning of typical fuel cell catalysts becomes problematic.
Bromine dissociates in water in the same manner as chlorine, by forming hypobromous acid and the hypobromite ion. Hypobromous acid is a weak acid that partially dissociates to form a hydrogen ion and a hypobromite ion.
3. Swimmers leave swimming pools covered in chloramines. Swimmersâ hair and skin are made from molecules having nitrogen. That nitrogen (the hair and skin) reacts with the pool chlorine. The chlorine reacts with the nitrogen of the hair and skin to make chloramines, which remain bonded to the hair and skin.