David AuBuchon wrote:
Correct me if I am wrong, but absolutely NOTHING physically comes off
of the negative terminal during production, right?
Depends on what metal the cathode is. If the metal reacts with hydrogen
that is produced at the cathode, and that metal hydrite is soluble, then
that would be produced at the cathode.
The only thing that comes off would be electrons reacting with water
molecules or incoming silver ions or a few amount of contaminant cations.
Electrons come off the cathode, and combine with the hydrogen that moves
over to the cathode, producing monoatomic or very reactive hydrogen.
I'm wondering if the ideal gen has a lot of surface area on cathode
also. If so, copper would be preferable so you don't pay for all that
extra silver.
Now, what you would pay for would be all the silver that plates out on
the copper as it reduces your ionic silver that is in solution.
Hey, could that also make a gen that doubles as a colloidal copper
setup? What do people use colloidal copper for anyway?
The problem with trying to make colloidal copper is that the copper that
comes off the anode immediately combines with the oxygen produced at the
anode and produces insoluble copper oxide that then precipitates or
forms a layer on the anode. From reports here colloidal copper cannot
be made this way.
Marshall
~David
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Dan Nave <bhangcha...@gmail.com
<mailto:bhangcha...@gmail.com>> wrote:
The cathode (in this case the negative terminal) can be copper if you
are not polarity switching.
The anode (in this case the positive terminal) must be silver.
You can see I don't agree with cking, as usual...
Dan
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:28 PM, David AuBuchon
<aubuchon.da...@gmail.com <mailto:aubuchon.da...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Is there any reason everyone uses silver for the cathode? I can
understand
> if people were reversing the polarity. But when things only go
one way,
> does it matter what the cathode is made of? Could it just be
copper wire?
>
> Also, isn't the surface area of the cathode important. With the
anode, more
> surface area reduces the density of a layer of silver ions
coming off,
> combining with hydroxide ions. At the cathode end, isn't there
a dense
> layer of hydroxide combining with incoming silver ions?
>
> Thanks,
> ~David
>
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