Hi Bob Thank you for your excellent report. When you said that I probably had high acid content I remembered that the stuff I gave my daughter was from a batch that I rejected because I had run the arc to long and had something like 30 ppm. Whenever I have something I am not sure of I dump it in a jug and mark it for agricultural use only. I assumed that it was simply ionic silver, am surprised that I never heard about producing a highly acidic product with the arc before.
>>To make HVAC with all of your electrodes wet is the first disaster. My >>investigations of two wet (why 4?) was never able to >make more that 9 ppm >>(true not hanna stuff) and it would go yellow or dirty and have silver drop out. So I abandoned that process. I use four rods to reduce the current per rod to make the smallest particles possible, also wetting 1/2 inch of each electrode gives more surface area releasing the particles. I have experimented with different rod lengths wet and found that 1/2 inch gave me the best results. But you are correct about the ppm, I can not get above 4 ppm on the Hanna meter, and that is because with that process I produce mainly particles. That is why I finish off with the arc, I then stop it at 10-12 ppm. My question to you is: What is the difference between arcing one rod for the whole process or arcing 2 rods at the end to top off the ionic content. My goal was to increase the particle ratio and I know I have accomplished that. I suspect that either method would produce the same amount of nitric acid per rod per hr. >> I will attach a plot of one of my run made on 11/6/01 and retested yesterday. It is quite revealing. Sorry, I did not receive that. >>HVAC ARC when there is a CO2 blanket makes a product that has structured >>water and is almost totally ionic. Mine is 98+% ionic checked by two labs. >>The T.E.M. photographs ($75.00 each run) show the size to be 1nm to 8 nm. How do you create a CO2 blanket? Also please explain the difference of NO2 and NO3 products. I will take you up on your offer to test some samples and will try to get them in the mail in about a week. Thanks again for your helpful input. Dave
