Humm , silver oxide battery run backwards..sorta? What would happen if you added salt to ionic silver water and put a voltmeter on the electrodes? K
At 11:00 AM 8/31/02 -0400, you wrote: >Perhaps the OH is already there. Maybe when one makes the CS, when an >oxygen atom is pulled out at the electrode during electrolysis, the >remaining OH sticks around to balance the silver ion. So when salt is >added, there is a simple reshuffle, with the OH and the Cl swapping partners >so to speak. That would give silver chloride and sodium hydroxide, or lye. > >Marshall > >Ivan Anderson wrote: > >> Just to clear up a few things :) >> >> If one does not add extra OH- ions to the mix, then the talk of sodium >> hydroxide (Na+ OH-) is redundant. >> >> The sodium ions take no part in the reaction (Ag+ + Cl- => AgCl), and >> are called spectator ions. >> >> Sodium ions cannot ionise anything as they are already oxidised, >> sodium metal on the other hand reacts violently with water. >> >> Ivan. >> >> -- >> The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. >> >> Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org >> >> To post, address your message to: [email protected] >> >> Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >> >> List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
