[NewCandle] Measuring Half-Cell Charge

[Keith Nagel]

OK, that was sort of my point, the green coating is a carbonate, not an oxide.

About the second question, I'm not really sure. For reasons of conductivity
some salt is essential, but I realize that this is quite different and
we are trying to get a lot of charge...

Here's a thought. One thing that always intrigued me about the double
layer capacity is that there are two double layers on each interface. The
close one that we have been referring to as the double layer, and a
diffuse distant one that we have not addressed. The latter has much more
capacity than the former, but it is in series with the former, so it
doesn't appear in the external measured capacity. But it is there.
Not sure about a ref ( I studied all this stuff before the internet
and have paper refs for all this ) but I'm sure little google
digging will turn up some info.

You might look into it, it may alter your thinking about how to
do the experiment, and perhaps it relates to your thoughts about
the (questionable) wisdom of adding salts to the water.

K.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:newcandle-bounces at ipdiscover.com]On Behalf Of Frederick Sparber
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:44 PM
To: New energy for the new world.
Subject: [NewCandle] Measuring Half-Cell Charge


First of all Keith, Copper Carbonate Hydroxide "Malachite" Cu2CO3(OH)2 is green.

Hence the green patina on the Statue of Liberty.

Patricia Thiel says there could be 10^15 water molecules per square cm
on a metal-water interface. If a major portion of these donate an
electron to the high work function "electron hungry" metal the
negative charge could go as high as
10^-4 coulombs per cm^2.  Likely much less,however.

It seems to me that adding a salt, base or acid would be counterproductive. No?

Fred

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