At 05:54 PM 5/10/2012 +1030, you wrote:
As I am using my home made mag stirrer {which appears to work fine as
there is no fallout, and nothing floating on the surface observable with
my naked eye} I am unable to slow it down enough for me to experiment on
really slow revs.
Can I assume then that those Silver Hydroxide 'chunks?' are of suitable
size so as to result in fallout?
## Yup
Could I also assume that smaller 'chunks?' may get trapped around
bubbles and get carried up to the surface resulting in that surface
'film' people speak about?
## They also trap metallic silver..so yup on that too.
Surface tension transfer.
But most of the metallic silver slick forms where the water interfaces with
the electrode and there are free electrons available.
A fast stir, stirs that in.
Ever notice how an old CRT TV tube gets charged with static electricity?
Glass is a capacitor.
One day I'll try running a batch on one, facing up like a table, letting
the electron gun charge the surface of the glass container.
ode
N.
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 09:09:39 -0400
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: CS>Keeping the same polarity rods
At 02:46 AM 5/9/2012 +1030, you wrote:
Well, here's another take on it. And I don't mean to tread on anyones
toes, just stating my opinion.
I personally don't subscribe to the reverse polarity business. It's fine
for those who prefer to set and forget, but every time that polarity is
automatically reversed, whatever hydroxides blah blah that appears on the
electrode will be removed {blown off} from that electrode - and where does
that stuff end up? it remains in the water, in whatever form, and probly
ends up laying on the surface of the water or on the bottom of the storage
vessel which means one will have to either decant or filter it out. If
I'm wrong here, then I am sure someone will state as much quick enough,
but then that's why we are here is it not - opinion exchange.
## I used to think that, and if the current is high, [or stir speed too
fast] it likely does get blown off.
After slowing his stir speed down to 30 RPM, Fred Sprague [Smart Silver
/ Custom electronics LLC, a polarity reversing controlled current gen]
solved a problem that had mystified him for 7 years....mega sparklies.
[Silver Hydroxide chunks in the water]
However, after much experimentation it would seem that the byproducts are
re converted back into their respective former components for the most
part...saving you a lot of silver and reducing bottom sludge and cleaner
electrodes too.
Ode
