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Re: Capacitor with bottle, water & salt
>it and that's what I'm planing to build. But I have a question: With high
>voltage in salt water, don't you have decomposition of the water in oxygen
>and Hydrogen, which can lead to an explosion??? and... How can you find to
>capacitance of such a cap... It is not as easy as with a plan or spheric or
>cylindrical cap...
The electrolysis of water can occur in any water, with or without salt.
It does form is small amounts in a salt water cap, but because of the low
current and because it is ac rather than DC, without a direct path of
current,
it does not readily form.