Nenah,
The electrodes I use in my DIY water ionizer, and in good commercial ionizers, are titanium coated with Platinum (not Palladium). You can find them on Amazon, for example, by searching for Platinized Titanium Anodes. They are expensive but necessary to be non-reactive in the electrolytic process. By the way, research in the last few years now shows the beneficial benefit of water ionizers is NOT that they make the water more alkaline. It IS because they infuse (dissolve) Hydrogen into the water. Asian countries are ahead of the US in producing efficient Hydrogen Infusion Machines (HIM), and there are now some commercial ones on the market, but they are expensive. The good ionizers also use what is called a Proton Exchange Membrane (also used in fuel cells) to ensure only Hydrogen gets infused into the water. The resulting product has a pH of about 7, the same as untreated water. The concentration of Hydrogen in water is quite low - on the order of 1 PPM, and the Hydrogen dissipates out of the water fairly quickly (hours), so the product needs to be drunk soon after it is made. The best web site I have found to explain the health benefits of Hydrogen Infused Water is <http://www.molecularhydrogenfoundation.org/> http://www.molecularhydrogenfoundation.org/ . Another good site is <http://h2healthyliving.com/> http://h2healthyliving.com/ . Steve From: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com [mailto:silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com] On Behalf Of Nenah Sylver Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:13 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS>water ionizers, revisited To all the smart and clever people on this list: I remember a discussion of water ionizers on this egroup and figured you would know the answer to my questions. Several years ago I bought a water ionizer unit (the "Athena"), which malfunctioned a couple of times. After dealing with a corrupt, inept, greedy company-whose inferior packing in fact contributed to breakage on at least one occasion-I convinced my great-with-tools-and-building-things significant other that as long as we had a unit in our possession that couldn't be used in its current state, he might as well open it up and see about fixing it himself. So he went onto You Tube and watched a few videos on how to create a water ionizer, and is now in the process of trying to repair it. My question concerns the material comprising the electrodes. Obviously, stainless steel is not a good material for water ionizer electrodes, because we don't want heavy metal to contaminate the water. The best homemade ionizers (and I'm assuming commercially manufactured ones too) use electrodes made of titanium. Some sellers of JUST the electrodes coat the titanium electrodes with palladium, claiming that the palladium is inert and will prevent the titanium from tarnishing (and thus releasing metallic ions into the water). However, after doing some research on titanium, I discovered that besides being the 9th most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust, titanium is made into airplanes because comparatively speaking it's not very heavy and DOESN'T RUST. So, is it necessary to use a palladium-covered set of titanium rods for electrodes? This may be a moot point for me now. Either my unit will be repaired, or we'll use its electrodes in a homemade unit. However, I still wonder about the materials used for water ionizer electrodes. I appreciate your input. Thanks in advance. Nenah Nenah Sylver, PhD author, The Rife Handbook of Frequency Therapy and Holistic Health healing from cancer and other diseases with non-invasive, effective technology suppressed by the medical cartel until recently <http://www.nenahsylver.com> www.nenahsylver.com --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
