At 06:08 PM 9/19/2009, [email protected] wrote:
In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:53:21 -0400:
Hi,
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<snip> Wikipedia. There should be visible light. Has anyone looked for it,
particularly with a microscope?
The problem is that one does know where the microscopic pits will
appear, sptje imager hs to have very high resolution. Further, the
cathode is usually buried in the cell.Keeping focus through the
electrolyte and evolved bubbles is another problem. Such a quest
demands a specific experimental setup..
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Nuclear reactors create a blue glow in the water when in operation.
That's Cerenkov radiation. Given how low the radiation intensity is in
a CF cell, I would not expect it to be visible, but we could always
look for it. It might be microscopically visible.
As I
suggested many years ago on Vortex, this might also appear around active
cathodes in working CF experiments, particularly if viewed at night with eyes
that were dark accustomed. At the time Jed (I think) said that this
had already
been done, but that nothing was seen. Perhaps now with more reliable
cells, it's
time to try again?
Maybe. It's not difficult to try, if the cathode design puts the
cathode next to the cell wall, or if it's next to CR-39 next to the
cell wall.
