[NewCandle] Aluminum electrolysis bubbles after death

[Nick Reiter]

Hello all, and belated happy Gnu Years...

You might recall that maybe 6 weeks ago, I had posted
some descriptions of an effect Sam Faile and I had
both seen with "bubbling after death" in an all
aluminum foil electrolysis cell in which distilled
water was run with a slight amount of spring water
mineral precipitate added.  At the time, Keith
suggested it may have been the magnesium in the spring
water precipitate that was plating out and reacting to
produce the on-going bubbling at the electrodes after
power was removed.

This now seems to be confirmed as such.  The spring
water precipitate (regardless of how it invoked shades
of Hudson's white powders!) was primarily a red
herring.  Sam has gotten some extremely vigorous
after-death bubbling for up to 48 hours by adding a
simple tablet of drugstore magnesium oxide supplement
to the distilled water of the reactor bath.  Same
darkening and embrittling of the foil electrodes, etc.

Now this in turn caused Sam to look again at USP#
5089107 by Pacheco.  That was an interesting Mg-Al
sacrificial electrolyzer rumored to produce unusually
large amounts of H2.  It also dredges up notions about
what might really activate the water in Joe Cells
too...

But for now, simply a long delayed update on a
peculiar observation...

Best,

Nick Reiter

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