Asif Nathekar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mike, Just to clarify you mentioned that to clean the silver > electrodes, use the voltage from the generator and the aluminium > strip should be the anode or positive and the silver should be on > the cathode or negative.
> If I have understood this won't that release the aluminium from > the strip? Thanks. > Excuse me if the question shows my lack of knowledge. I am an > electronics hobbyist not big on chemistry!. Hi Asif, You ask a very good question. I definitely want to invite you to join the SilverCell forum soon when it is ready. You can use just about any voltage or current source you have available, for example, a simple 9 volt battery works fine. Unlike a 3 nines, the Desulfurizing process is self-limiting and won't run away on you. The aluminum foil is the positive electrode or anode, and both your silver electrodes connect to the negative terminal or cathode. Your question about aluminum ions is extremely astute. I did not expect anyone would ask that. The reactions at the cathode are simple and easy to describe. I will do that in the web version of this paper. The reactions at the anode are completely different. They could drive a saint to sin. The literature is very confused about what happens at the anode. I find most of the available equations are incorrect, so I have come up with my own explanation that fits the available facts. Unlike silver, copper, zinc, or steel, aluminum will not donate aluminum ions to the solution. It is so reactive it immediately forms aluminum oxide, which is insoluble. So I believe all the reactions at the aluminum anode are as if the aluminum were completely inert. Then the main things that happen involve the hydrogen ions that are released as a product of the liberation of oxygen at the anode. I will formalize the equations and present them in the web version of the paper. Very Good question! Thanks, Mike Monett SilverCell -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]>
