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Re: TC for Electrolysis?



	Yes, it will work - but AC will give a perfectly explosive mixture of
hydrogen and oxygen in each tube, and I wouldn't want to be around when
your TC shot its first, and last, 128 foot spark at your gas production
apparati :)
	

	Ross

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Original Poster: "Steve" <Steve-at-g8cyerichmond.freeserve.co.uk>
> 
> Certainly water can be electrolysed using AC,  I do it regularly as a
> demonstration in the school where I work. I see no theoretical reason why
> you couldn't do it using the single electrode, with ground providing the
> other conductor, capacitively coupled to the electrode. I don't imagine it
> would be very efficient though!
> Steve Cook
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 4:01 AM
> Subject: Re: TC for Electrolysis?
> 
> > Original Poster: "mrand" <mrand-at-iols-dot-net>
> >
> > Hi Mike,
> > Yes, I was thinking of electrolysis of water to get H2 & O2 gases.  Do you
> > think a TC can do this?  Maybe with just one wire from a bipolar coil?
> > Thanks - Mike
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > Date: Friday, January 07, 2000 3:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: TC for Electrolysis?
> >
> >
> > >Original Poster: Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com
> > >
> > >In a message dated 1/6/2000 5:30:13 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> > >tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>      In Tesla's 1892 lecture before the IEE in London, he said the
> > >following:
> > >>  "... Or we may, by the help of some artifice, decompose a solution in
> > any
> > >>  electrolytic cell by connecting only one pole of the cell to the line
> or
> > >>  source of energy."  This statement followed his description of
> rotating
> > a
> > >>  motor with a single wire from his bipolar HV/HF generator.
> > >>
> > >>  Has any performed this experiment, or know of other researchers that
> > have,
> > >>  to see if it is possible to decompose a solution in an electrolytic
> cell
> > >>  with one pole from a TC?
> > >>
> > >>  Any suggestions on how to rectify the output from a bipolar TC?
> > >>
> > >>  Thanks - Mike
> > >
> > >Hi Mike,
> > >     If you read what you wrote above more closely, it says that you
> could
> > >decompose a solution in an electrolytic cell.  This would not require DC
> > >current.  If you wish to reduce a metal ion to the metal, then it would
> be
> > >best if DC were used in order to collect the metal onto the cathode, but
> if
> > >the reduction potential is such that reduction occurs preferentially to
> > >hydrogen production (like with gold, silver, etc)  AC could be used.
> > > Mike Hollingsworth
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >