Interesting, but my nickel on the minus side of the supply is the one releasing large quantities of tiny gas bubbles. The one attached to the positive supply terminal was dissolved earlier with table salt but looks like it will survive with borax.
I went around and around with this one before I thought I understood which terminal is connected to which for the device to operate properly. I think that the positive charge of the H+ group is attracted to the negative battery terminal. Wikipedia makes this statement as well. So, I believe the hydrogen is released to the nickel attached to this negative supply terminal. If you are confident that this is wrong please explain your understanding as I would be interested. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Fri, Sep 21, 2012 4:44 pm Subject: RE: [Vo]:Good Alloy for Celani type reaction costs 5 cents : Chuck Sites From:Chuck Sites Just to make clear, the nickel was always on the +side of the power supply, and is described in Wikipedia as the cathode. Hmm … I’m usually the mildlydyslexic one, but someone is confused: the + or positively charged electrode isthe “anode” in an electrolytic cell, which is what we are talkingabout - and the “cathode” is negative (attractsprotons and positive ions). In a battery, this terminology is reversed, which is probably what theyare referring to. Technically a battery is a galvanic cell, not an electrolyticcell, since it supplies power. However, to confuse things even more, when thebattery is being charged, instead of supplying charge, it becomes electrolytic.You could win a bet on that one (or lose it).
