[NewCandle] Role of Glass and Trioxin

[Nick Reiter]

Yet another wee update from the world of aluminum -
aluminum hydrolysis and bubbles after death... this
time in the form of a caveat for CF devotees on a
budget.

Last week, I set up a baseline version of Sam Faile's
twisted aluminum foil electrode - in - water reactor,
and set it running at 110VAC with all pristine
conditions and no water additives - distilled H2O
only, fresh from the roll foil, fresh mason jar.  In
theory, it should simply just have sat there as mega
resistor, possibly with some small 60 cy displacement
current I suppose.  Well, it took about 52 hours, but
I finally began to get a little conductivity, and some
hydrogen bubbling began to take off.  In about another
day it was behaving similar to the jar reactors Sam
had been running with before, with bubbling peaking a
good 3 to 4 hours after power off.  I chalked it up to
very slight leaching of aluminum ions from the foil,
cascading until the electrolysis was up to steam.

Sam, however, did a similar test but substituted an
alcohol cleaned polyethylene snap lock food tub for
the mason jar.  A week later, no electrolysis or
bubbles until he added a little electrolyte in the
form of some boric acid and table salt.

Moral of that experiment seems to be watch out for
soda lime glass as a contributor in exotic
electrolysis, anode glow, or cold fusion type
experiments.  I would not have thought it, but there
appears to be some potential after all for
contribution of ionic species from experimenter's
mason jars - even super cleaned fresh ones.  I would
presume that borosilicate or quartz would be more
inert.

In completely different news, the other day, an
unsolicited FAX showed up on the machine here at the
lab from a place calling itself Triox Technologies, in
Salt Lake City.  The sheet was a one page suspiciously
over-vague sales pitch for "Nuclear Magnetic Spin
power cells" that have been in development, and can as
of now put out up to 100volts DC at ten milliamps.  I
haven't given them a call yet, though a seemingly
legit phone number and address was provided, although
they don't appear to have a website.  A quick Google
sez there is such a place though, and their area of
business is supposed to be ceramic filters and solid
oxygen permeable conductors for fuel cells.  Nuclear
Magnetic Spin cells?  Salt Lake City?  Thats enough
there to start down a very surreal road.  Sounds like
bat country, though.  Anyone hear o' this outfit?

NR




 
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