wrote on 1/22/2018 4:21 PM:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 20:56:52 UTC, Terry Schwartz wrote:
At my last company, I spent the better part of my last 4 or 5 years dealing with water conductivity issues. We produced machines that electrolyzed water into base and acid components in order to produce cleaning chemicals.
snip
I'd be interested to find out about the production of the cleaning chemicals.

I can tell you it wasn't from electrolysis of water. That produces hydrogen
(H2) and oxygen (O2), not acid and base. Anything else would have to come
from additives to the water.

--

Rick C

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998

On Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:58:09 UTC, rickman wrote:
tabbypurr wrote on 1/22/2018 4:21 PM:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 20:56:52 UTC, Terry Schwartz wrote:
At my last company, I spent the better part of my last 4 or 5 years dealing with water conductivity issues. We produced machines that electrolyzed water into base and acid components in order to produce cleaning chemicals.
snip
I'd be interested to find out about the production of the cleaning chemicals.

I can tell you it wasn't from electrolysis of water. That produces hydrogen
(H2) and oxygen (O2), not acid and base. Anything else would have to come
from additives to the water.

it's sal****er.

I'm curious when this was patented, if it was.


NT

wrote on 1/25/2018 3:15 AM:
On Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:58:09 UTC, rickman wrote:
tabbypurr wrote on 1/22/2018 4:21 PM:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 20:56:52 UTC, Terry Schwartz wrote:
At my last company, I spent the better part of my last 4 or 5 years dealing with water conductivity issues. We produced machines that electrolyzed water into base and acid components in order to produce cleaning chemicals.
snip
I'd be interested to find out about the production of the cleaning chemicals.

I can tell you it wasn't from electrolysis of water. That produces hydrogen
(H2) and oxygen (O2), not acid and base. Anything else would have to come
from additives to the water.

it's sal****er.

Not really. All water has contaminants. The water he has mentioned was
fresh water with more or less contaminants. Still, it wouldn't be described
as electrolysis of (salt)water if the interesting part was the contaminants.
It would be described as the interesting bits dissolved in water.

--

Rick C

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998

Apropos electrolysis and water, way back in the day in high-school, my chemistry teacher showed us how to make Hydrogen peroxide using electrolysis. It was crude and not very efficient, and wasteful of resources.

Today, not so much.

https://link.springer.com/article/10...A1017588221369

Under controlled conditions, other products are also possible. I suspect that is what Tennant was doing.

Side Note: This teacher partnered with several of the history teachers. He had us collect 'night soil' to make gunpowder when we were studying the Civil War, we had to learn the 'secret code' whereby one could identify an American anywhere, any time (this _was_ the 1960s, remember), and we had to learn the ten (10) reindeer. In any case, a lot of very basic and very useful chemistry and applied science has stuck with me over the years.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

Apparently anyone can be an expert on things they do not understand.

On 1/25/18 8:06 AM, Terry Schwartz wrote:
Apparently anyone can be an expert on things they do not understand.


As Rickman and Oldschool constantly prove.


--
"I am a river to my people."
Jeff-1.0
WA6FWi
http:foxsmercantile.com

On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 12:15:30 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:58:09 UTC, rickman wrote:
tabbypurr wrote on 1/22/2018 4:21 PM:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 20:56:52 UTC, Terry Schwartz wrote:
At my last company, I spent the better part of my last 4 or 5 years dealing with water conductivity issues. We produced machines that electrolyzed water into base and acid components in order to produce cleaning chemicals.

it's sal****er.

I'm curious when this was patented, if it was.

It's where lye and chlorine bleach come from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloralkali_process

and has been an industrial process since the 1890s. I'm sure there's bunches
of patents...

On Thursday, 25 January 2018 13:11:51 UTC, rickman wrote:
tabbypurr wrote on 1/25/2018 3:15 AM:
On Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:58:09 UTC, rickman wrote:
tabbypurr wrote on 1/22/2018 4:21 PM:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 20:56:52 UTC, Terry Schwartz wrote:

At my last company, I spent the better part of my last 4 or 5 years dealing with water conductivity issues. We produced machines that electrolyzed water into base and acid components in order to produce cleaning chemicals.
snip
I'd be interested to find out about the production of the cleaning chemicals.

I can tell you it wasn't from electrolysis of water. That produces hydrogen
(H2) and oxygen (O2), not acid and base. Anything else would have to come
from additives to the water.

it's sal****er.

Not really. All water has contaminants. The water he has mentioned was
fresh water with more or less contaminants. Still, it wouldn't be described
as electrolysis of (salt)water if the interesting part was the contaminants.
It would be described as the interesting bits dissolved in water.

Are you trying to be stupid today?

On Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:56:15 UTC, whit3rd wrote:
On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 12:15:30 AM UTC-8, tabby wrote:
On Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:58:09 UTC, rickman wrote:
tabbypurr wrote on 1/22/2018 4:21 PM:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 20:56:52 UTC, Terry Schwartz wrote:

At my last company, I spent the better part of my last 4 or 5 years dealing with water conductivity issues. We produced machines that electrolyzed water into base and acid components in order to produce cleaning chemicals.

it's sal****er.

I'm curious when this was patented, if it was.

It's where lye and chlorine bleach come from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloralkali_process

and has been an industrial process since the 1890s. I'm sure there's bunches
of patents...

thanks, I'd forgotten that.


NT

On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 11:30:48 AM UTC-5, Fox's Mercantile wrote:


As Rickman and Oldschool constantly prove.

Much as I hate to admit it, Oldschool does display actual curiosity, and some capacity for learning.

To the extent that I take any time at it at all, I still wonder if Ricky is any of these:

12 years old, or less. This would cover it all.
Deep into the spectrum. However, these sorts tend to be savants at something.
Really that ignorant, or just tweaking us.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

On 1/25/18 1:19 PM, wrote:
Are you trying to be stupid today?

Unfortunately, that's his default setting.


--
"I am a river to my people."
Jeff-1.0
WA6FWi
http:foxsmercantile.com