Lavoisier produced hydrogen for his experiments on mass conservation by reacting a flux of steam with metallic iron through an incandescent iron tube heated in a fire. Anaerobic oxidation of iron by the protons of water at high temperature can be schematically represented by the set of following reactions:
How did Lavoisier produce hydrogen for his experiments?
reacting a flux of steam with metallic iron through an incandescent iron tube heated in a fire