Attila, Great pictures, by the way.
My experience with alkaline metal is limited to sodium, potassium and lithium. Mostly sodium, which after a long process is precipitated from sodium hydroxide as a reagent. These are all contained in an oven under very precise temperature and flow control, as the analytes which are passed over change very specific attributes of a cell. These are the results which are reported. Eventually the cell fails and the alkaline metal attacks the cheaper mounting hardware(even though the oven maintains an argon atmosphere). If not caught in time it will work it's way down the thermocouple, under the sheath and in to the support electronics. Rb is claimed to be much more active than any of the metals i have experience with so i assumed that corrosion was a preliminary sign of low life span. For completeness, I maintain the instruments in an environmental analytical laboratory. (Sulfur analyzers, CO2, CHN, Calorimeters, ion chromatograph, inductive couple plasma mass specs, gas chromatography mass spec, organic carbon analyzer. etc,etc,etc.) When i say alkalines i mean alkalies, ie, elements which belong to the alkalinity group. 99.9999% or better purity, traceable grade. Steve On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Attila Kinali <att...@kinali.ch> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 05:19:24 -0500 > "Steve ." <iteratio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Looking at those pictures with a different mind set, I see now that the > > washers are not corroded as I had suspected. It's amazing how they > > resemble badly corroded washers which are so typically found in ovens in > > which alkalines have leaked. > > If you mean "alkaline batteries leaking" with "alkalines leaking", > then the corrosion you see there is from something else than > alkali metals. In alkaline batteries you have a potpury of different > highly reactive stuff. What exactly corrodes what and how is something > i cannot tell you, but it's definitly not elemental alkalimetals like > you have in Rb cells. > > Attila Kinali > > -- > Why does it take years to find the answers to > the questions one should have asked long ago? > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
