Not quite. I think you're becoming confused because you are equating "electron flow" with "conventional current." They are not the same thing.
It is intuitively easier to understand electron flow as current flow, however, at one time long ago someone had to decide which way current flows and they chose the "wrong" way... So, engineers use "conventional current flow" which flows from plus (+) to minus (-), and technicians and all the rest of us use "electron flow" which flows from minus (-) to plus (+) and call it current. So, for our purposes, to recap, the minus side is the cathode, the electrons stream out from it, and the anode collects them back up, and is the plus side. (Clear as mud, right? ;-)) Dan -----Original Message----- From: bs clayton [mailto:kl_clay...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:58 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS>definitions When I was in school, cations were the positively charged ions in a rxn, anions were the negative. Similarly, I thought the cathode was the plus side of the battery, the anode the minus side. So I looked it up in my World Book, and it says, and I quote, "cathode, noun. 1. a negatively charged electrode. In an electrolytic cell or electron tube, electrons flow from the cathode to the anode. The filament in most vacuum tubes is a cathode. 2. the positive terminal of a battery or cell that sends out current. The carbon electrode in a dry cell is the cathode. Also, kathode. " This must mean the same thing, but since I am only now having my coffee, it looks different. To recap, the plus side is the cathode, the electrons stream out from it, and the anode collects them back up, and is the minus side. Is this right? Kathryn ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited -- 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 Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
