[NewCandle] Heavy citric for whiter and brighter glow?

[Keith Nagel]

Hi Nick,

>I would set currents the same, but I was
>consistently seeing a higher voltage for the blended
>H2O D2O electrolyte.

It's tempting to attribute the enhanced glow to the 
higher impedence of your "heavy" cell, although the 
difference in voltage is pretty small. As you say,
the mystery is why a heavy cell would have a higher
impedence to begin with. That's new to me, and 
as far as I know it's not been reported in the
CF literature ( where a great deal of "compare heavy + light"
electrolysis is done ). If you can score a piece
of platinum wire try to measure the half potential
and see if the additional voltage drop is at the
anode or the cathode. I assume the former, but
we won't know until you try. At some point I'll
get around to messing with the heavy stuff and I
can try a replication, that may be sooner than
later as I'm feeling comfortable enough in my
understanding of the anodizing process in general
to be able to do some kind of reasonable experiment.

K.