I would be concerned about the cost of platinum. Stainless steel might work since it is un reactive. I am using an old stainless spoon as my electrode attached to the positive supply terminal and it has been working for a number of hours without getting fouled too badly. This is allowing me to continue to exhaust hydrogen at my nickel terminal.
My simple experiment presently runs smoothly at 1 amp of current when 16 volts of DC is applied. The spacing between the small spoon and the nickel is roughly 1 inch. The current is constant since I am using a power supply that allows me to set the short circuit current while the voltage adjusts to compensate for spacing and resistance variation. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sat, Sep 22, 2012 11:26 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Good Alloy for Celani type reaction costs 5 cents : Chuck Sites On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Alan Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote: Ummm .... Burning or molten magnesium metal reacts violently with water. Ha! That's right. There's also reason to think platinum would be a suitable control in an H2 gas or light water experiment. Eric
