Why bother? It doesn't hurt anything -- and if you continue to use the baster, it will simply re-plate. MA
________________________________ From: needling around <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 10:13:23 PM Subject: Re: EXTERNAL:Re: CS>Does the cathode need to be silver? Question is, how do I recover the silver that is plating out the turkey baster I am using to measure the CS I take am & pm? It turning a really pretty silvery grey! PT ----- Original Message ----- >From: Norton, Steve >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:28 PM >Subject: Re: EXTERNAL:Re: CS>Does the cathode need to be silver? > >Some silver will plate out on the negative electrode. Using a silver negative >electrode allows you to recover the plated out silver for use. > > >- Steve N > > > > >From: David AuBuchon [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 08:20 PM >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: CS>Does the cathode need to be silver? > >Correct me if I am wrong, but absolutely NOTHING physically comes off of the >negative terminal during production, right? The only thing that comes off >would >be electrons reacting with water molecules or incoming silver ions or a few >amount of contaminant cations. I'm wondering if the ideal gen has a lot of >surface area on cathode also. If so, copper would be preferable so you don't >pay for all that extra silver. > >Hey, could that also make a gen that doubles as a colloidal copper setup? >What >do people use colloidal copper for anyway? > >~David > > >On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Dan Nave <[email protected]> wrote: > >The cathode (in this case the negative terminal) can be copper if you >>are not polarity switching. >> >>The anode (in this case the positive terminal) must be silver. >> >>You can see I don't agree with cking, as usual... >> >>Dan >> >> >> >> >>On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:28 PM, David AuBuchon <[email protected]> >wrote: >>> Is there any reason everyone uses silver for the cathode? I can understand >>> if people were reversing the polarity. But when things only go one way, >>> does it matter what the cathode is made of? Could it just be copper wire? >>> >>> Also, isn't the surface area of the cathode important. With the anode, more >>> surface area reduces the density of a layer of silver ions coming off, >>> combining with hydroxide ions. At the cathode end, isn't there a dense >>> layer of hydroxide combining with incoming silver ions? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> ~David >>> >> >> >> >>-- >>The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. >> Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org >> >>Unsubscribe: >> <mailto:[email protected]?subjectunsubscribe> >>Archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html >> >>Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> >>List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >> >
