In a message dated 00-06-04 21:28:28 EDT, you write: << Hi there Bob,
Ivan: You said, "If one strikes an arc in moist air (as found above a body of water), ozone and nitric acid are formed." During sputtering I smell virtually no ozone. I am interested in your idea about nitric acid though. I may submit a sample for analysis. But before I do, I'd like you to tell me the difference in taste between my HVAC CS with a pH of 4 or so, and a sample of laboratory grade nitric acid made to pH ~4. If you agree to a taste test, I'll submit my HVAC CS for nitric acid analysis. Then you said, "If you use silver electrodes the silver will be sputtered as silver ions and silver oxide." I'm afraid I'll have to disagree here as well. It can be demonstrated quite easily that silver oxide is unstable at sputtering temperatures. As far a producing silver ions in the arc goes, I have not run across any evidence that an electropotential that is barely high enough to ionize air, is anywhere near the electropotential required to ionize silver. If you have some data that confirms the production of silver ions at ~10,000 volts please pass it along. And finally you said, "The ozone will most likely become H2O2 where it reacts with water,..." Oh boy, I know I'm on thin ice now, but I'm not likely to agree with you here as well. I sampled a very small amount of 3% H2O2 in my mouth a few weeks ago. A very ugly experience. Again, my HVAC CS tastes a lot like water. So how much H2O2 could I have made, particularly when I never smelled any ozone in the first place? Roger -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
