Chemical formulae do not add up

Production & Recipes
DeletedAccount18562 · 2 years ago

Issue description

Electrolyzing H2O gives incorrect gas balances on completion - the product yields 2 H2 and 4 O2 in fact the correct output is 2H2O -> 2H2 + O2. The recipe 1 H2O -> 4O2 + 2H2 is not possible - anywhere in the universe. To achieve 4 O2 output would require 8 H2O yielding 4*2 H2 and 4 O2 -> 8 H2 + 4 O2.

Electrolysis of Ammonia gives incorrect gas balances on completion - the recipe give 4 NH3 -> 8 N2 + 4 H2. In fact electrolyzing 4 NH3 -> 4*(3/2) H2 + 4*(1/2) N2 -> 6 H2 + 2 N2.

Reproduction steps

This is an error inf recipe and should be corrected for "realism".

Game version and build number

v0.6.4b b340

Operating system

Windows

poltime poltime · 2 years ago

Someone has already written about it. This is a game, not a chemistry textbook. If you really find fault, then you can't get rubber from diesel fuel and coal, diesel fuel from methane and oxygen, cement only from limestone, etc.

ArtClark [github] · 2 years ago

Why cannot make rubber from eggs? I've done it at home. :(

Nila24 [github] · 2 years ago

Just a thought - since gasses have wildly different densities and yet must be loaded into same truck with same volume it might be possible that chemical formulas should be optimized for that instead of raw periodic table element count. It also might or might not account for difficulty of storage and transportation.

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