In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:19:58 -0900: Hi, [snip] >Another perspective on this might be the use of a sacrificial anode to >perpetually seal D2 into a cathode once it is loaded. It would have the >dual roles of depositing a sealing metal plus maintaining a bias, and thus >would need to have only a nominal drain on the anode. The anode of choice >would then produce slightly less than but almost exactly the potential >required to evolve hydrogen. [snip] Interestingly, the electronegativity of Pd exactly equals that of hydrogen, as also does that of iridium.
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