Hi Dave, I don't really know where to begin!!!! But what you are doing is a disaster!!!
To make HVAC with all of your electrodes wet is the first disaster. My investigations of two wet (why 4?) was never able to make more that 9 ppm (true not hanna stuff) and it would go yellow or dirty and have silver drop out. So I abandoned that process. The cone process where one electrode is wet and the other about 1/8" to 1/4" above the DW surface will make a reasonable CS that has a lot of partilces in it as witnessed by the bright T.E. When you made the arc in air the there was a whole bunch of NO3 generated. (note arcing in air is how Dr. Farber before WWI made nitric acid to explosives.) It also makes NO2 and the twoswithc levels with time. I will attach a plot of one of my run made on 11/6/01 and retested yesterday. It is quite revealing. HVAC ARC when there is a CO2 blanket makes a product that has structured water and is almost totally ionic. Mine is 98+% ionic as checked by two labs. The T.E.M. photographs ($75.00 each run) show the size to be 1nm to 8 nm. I hve configured my spectrophotometer to measure Ag in ppm , NO3 in ppm, and NO2 in ppm. I cannot measure silverparticles. that takes an AA, and they are many kilobucks. When you get Hanna readings about 100 then you are in the nitric acid business. I hope that I have answered you questions. Yes I will test your product for all three items. The cost will be $7.50 for the first sample and $5.00 foreach additional sample in the same shipment. I will need about 2 oz. seal it well and place in a ziplock baggy for extra security. Send to: System Tech Engineering Robert L. Berger 12303 E. 89th St. Kansas City, MO 64138-5150 "ole Bob"
NO3 vs NO2 in CS.xls
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