At 2:04 PM 2/28/5, Keith Nagel wrote: >I've never done this experiment, but it's certainly not >something required the DOE, Navy, and 100K to do... If >someone sends me an antimony anode I'd be happy to do >the basic experiment ( sadly, I have only the oxide form >in stock, although if you think I can get away with a >carbon anode I could just dissolve the oxide in a little >HCL and use that. I fear that too much water will be >generated and the sorts of problems you lay out below >would interfere with the plating of the allotrope).
Why not use a Pd (or maybe Ni) anode along with the antimony dissolved in HCL to do the codeposition? This *might* avoid the otherwise inevitable explosion and permit operation continuous enough to do calorimtry. Regards, Horace Heffner
