On Dec 19, 2005, at 9:50 AM, William Beaty wrote:
See <http://home.earthlink.net/~lenyr/borax.htm>
What is the mechanism?
As food for thought, you might also check out:
<http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/BlueAEH.pdf>
Even though the blue glow is an anode effect, proton involvement is
highly likely. There are some notes in the above pdf about proton
tunneling that may be relevant. A wild speculation is that free
protons are stripped of electrons at the anode, probably have the
highest concentration there, and may in rarely and briefly existing
pairs have the ability to tunnel as pairs into seed locations, like
free electrons.
