local current is enough to cause necrosis. This is different than oscillatory destruction. Harmonics of audio square waves are unlikely to excite resonance with DNA strands, which would be somewhere close to infrared wavelengths in my humble estimation. Low resistance points are somehow caused due to electrode and skin character, and this causes the current to channel through that one small point. Beckers book Perils and Promise of electromedicine gives a good explanation

M


On 12/28/2012 8:26 AM, Marshall wrote:
Salt has nothing to do with it. The fast rising edge of the waveform has a lot of harmonics, some of which resonant with the DNA of the pathogen, and breaks the DNA apart. Then the bias causes the pieced to get drawn apart before they can recombine, destroying the pathogen. I have seen movies of bacteria getting blown apart by these resonances.

If what you were saying is true, then it would only affect the area near where the electrodes are placed, but fact is zapping kills everything within the field of the wave.

Marshall

On 12/28/2012 7:14 AM, Ode Coyote wrote:


Salt is what produces the corrosive chemicals [hypochlorous acid and sodium hydroxide]...and that's the whole reason to use a zapper [change the PH of the blood in a localized area]
Try eliminating the salt in your blood.
The problem is that blood flow in the skin is not sufficient to reduce the concentration of corrosive chemicals being made out of the salt in the blood ..and/or being used as an electrolyte....at the given rate Gotta slow it down, spread it out or give it time to dilute with the blood flow rate available before it becomes concentrated enough to burn the skin.

Ode