I have been thinking about this since reading the message from Dan Nave about making colloidal gold with an underwater arc and a magnetic field.
When there is an arc, then atoms are knocked off the electrode. This is known as sputtering. Now in an underwater arc, the atoms will get caught up in the current flow and become a plasma of ions between the electrodes. The flow of the plasma will be in a direct line between the electrodes. It will be magnetically restrained by the field generated by the current flow itself. Thus very little of the ions in the plasma will actually get trapped in the water surrounding the plasma. What would end up getting into the water would be a significant amount of chuncks of material that were sputtered off and did not ionize since they are not constrained by the field. This would give a dirty look to the water, and much of it would settle out over time. Now if you put a magnetic field orthogonally to the electric flow, the ions will encounter a force causing them to deviate from the straight line. With a sufficient field the ions could be made to move at right angles to the flow, and will encounter the water blanket around the plasma. Chunks of material would not be deflected, so there would be no increase in the contamination from this, but the ions would be deflected, making a colloid in the water at a much faster rate than without the field adn with a much lower amount of crude.. I definitely think you may have hit on something here. Marshall -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
