Ney Nick. Before mounting my assault on the aforementioned hair clog, I thought to try something else...
I reversed the polarity of the supply, making the wire whisker the anode. Cranking the supply up around 75 volts or so produced a weak plasma discharge. This time the discharge did not seem to start entirely at the tip and work back, rather it was like the whole of the whisker would start to sparkle and light up. The really curious thing was that, opposite of my experience with the cathode, the effect INCREASED as I submerged the wire deeper in solution. Weird, huh? I wonder if this helps explain my much earlier observations regarding concentration, as I would have been measuring effects at both anode and cathode. Don't know. But you should be aware that there's nothing unique about the cathode in this regard. I'd like to take the system up to higher voltages to see if the anodic reaction is at least qualitatively similar. Looks like it to me now. K. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Reiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Water glow discharge Good stuff, Keith - thanks very much. You may go slay hairballs now. Hmmmm no heavy water lurking on the shelf, but deuterium is easy enough to get. I could run some through a hy-oxy torch, direct the flame on a piece of cold stainless, condense it and make a trickle of heavy water. Then mix in with the KOH / NaOH electrolyte. The "Aqua-Fusor". N > Hi Nick. > > Woke this morning to the ungodly sludge which is > characteristic of NaCl/H20 electrolysis with > steel.... > > So I cleaned things up a bit, and switched to NaOH. > > Yup, it's a whole lot better than NaCl, if by better > you mean that it starts at a lower voltage. I see > about 40V to start, and things get downright scary > at 60V. The sodium lines are present, as they were > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
