On Mar 10, 12:34*pm, John Fields
wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:20:05 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

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BTW, here's an excellent link:

http://electrochem.cwru.edu/ed/encyc...electr-cap.htm

Very good indeed. I'm particularly envious of the use of electron
microscope images to illustrate what is going on at the micro level at
the electrode surfaces.

I wanted to turn an electron microscope on the platinum black we were
putting on the electrode surfaces in our conductivity cell in my last
job, but the best the boss could come up with was an obsolete Philips
machine in someone local's hobby space, operated by the owner, and he
couldn't produce any useful images.

The report does suggest that the anode and cathode foils and foil
surfaces are distinctly different, which does make it difficult to
predict what reverse electrolysis might actually do, but will - of
course - provide an endless source of explanations for the results of
your experiments.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen