hi jan!
i also wonder about this very much...
someone who has this webpage with the "slides" shows copper on the metal clip attachment disposed (sorry
for forgetting the name and being to lazy to find it out).
I'm very interested in disposing some of the copper as solid material (maybe on carbon electrodes?) to
stop the bath keeping growing and growing... (and needing new ingredients).
but i didn't think about using the O generated.. interesting idea..
(∗ggg∗ storing the hydrogen which is byproduct and using it to solve world's energy problems by us few
homebrewers... only joking..)
if anyone knows about electrolysis interaction (or wants to try and has chem. gear to interpret the
results) pleas tell us......
just a question: why the hell do you mention 6.3V exactly? seems to high for chem. voltage differential?
which reason?
regards
stefan
some different thought:
for a guy from mars, no chemical knoweledge, only common sense, woldn't it sound strange to etch kilos
of plain copper away to get CuCl2 if he initialy only wants to etch copper? (sounds pretty much like
digging a bigger hole to dump the earth of a hole you want to dig).
only a thought.. if anyone has a comment on that it would be welcome..
16.04.2003 17:34:03, "Jan Kok" <
kok@...> wrote:
>Just some brainstorming from someone who is not very knowlegeable about chemistry:
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>Would electrolysis speed up the dissolving of the copper and getting the reaction you want? Just pass
6.3VAC (more or less, to suit your taste) between two copper electrodes. You get gaseous oxygen (which
you apparently want) during part of the electrical cycle, and hydrogen in the other half (so watch out
for explosive gas mixture!).
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>Cheers,
>- Jan
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