Crystal Cell Research

[mscoffman]

@All,

I have a comment on the tsp thing.  tsp => TriSodium Phosphate. You should
look up TriSodium Phosphate and Sodium Meta Silicate on wikipedia.org Both
are used as industrial cleaners using mechanical and akaline chemistry to
remove grease.

=> Here's the thing; old style TSP contains phosphate and has been descheduled because that
creates environmental problems. So Manufactures are substituting compound mixtures in
place of real TSP to try to get equivalent cleaning power. They are free to make these mixtures
whatever from they like.  These could contain;  sodium carbonate (washing soda), sodium meta
silicate (water glass),  and zeolites.  The non-hydrated form of sodium meta silicate is acid/base
neutral while the hydrated form is apparently highly alkaline. So if you are interested in
"repeatability" I would pick one primary company like "Ace" or "Red Devil" and stick with them. If
you are trying to do reagent (chemically pure) repeatability one needs to be careful about what one
is adding and to make that clear in any documentation. I would assume that manufactures are
only listing the primary ingreadiant on their on product list.  Some manufactures use linear
programming to build what is currently the cheapest mix of materials.

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Hyrdration means adding OH molecules from water to certain chemical molecules in a
mechanical way, I tend to think of it as further corrosion of the chemical, but it's actually a way
for additional water to move through a chemical cell. I think it uses coordinated bonding
(mechanical) not electronic bonding so you can often add  (or subtract) multiple occurances
of OH when there is sufficient water around.  Nine x OH's makes Sodium Meta Silcate
Nonohydrate  or same Nonohydroxide.

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Question:
Could someone clarify in this  JT schematic, whether L1 and L2 inductors are wound on the
same or different inductor ferrite cores? So is there one torroid with four windings, or is there
more then one device?

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Question:
Would the metal Magnesium form a thick Magnesium Oxide coating electrolytically
in Borax solution electrolyte like the Aluminium Oxide formed one there?

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Thank you; users drodebbe and plengo. This has clarified a lot.


:S:MarkSCoffman

[profitis]

I see you instinctively are headed in right direction plengo there is a definite lust to electrostatochemicaly equilibrize between any different electrodes.dry  aluminum normaly has a tight oxide layer that inhibits corrosion in dry air but if you throw mercury on it it breaks that oxide skin,amalgamates,then catalyses further combustion caking yes.I did this classic experiment many times in earlier times twas fun.

[profitis]

magnesium or aluminum are way too reactive markscoffman.they are so reactive that aluminum caps with borax in them will even corrode through eventualy but extremely slowly(years).the washing powders of today use  sodium silicate for dual purpose alkaline dirt lifting power and lowers corrosion rate of aluminum washing machines

[profitis]

Titanium is one example of an extremely reactive metal that forms such a tight passive layer in alkaline sol that it doesn't even register a potential close to its standard potential

[drodenbe]

in regards to the joule thief coil.  I am currently using a transformer out of a tv set with a dual winding on an E core.  Both coils are the same in the circuit.  How ever I also the other day wound a joule thief coil of 60 turns and 20 turns on my crystal cell with no core and used another joule thief coil wound on a 1 inch torrid and it worked just as well.  Still got increased charging of crystal cell running the circuit.  The crystal cell I wound the coil on was a 3.5 inch pvc pipe 3.5 inches tall.  So I was surprised to see it also worked with this circuit.  The frequency will be different but it still works but have better results with the core.  When I get a way to do it I will get a picture out to you.  FYI  I have had one of my cells running the JT circuit and the voltage is still rising.  The LED is bright and the voltage is 1.198 volts started at 1.122 volts this morning. 

I will post the graphs in a little while. 

Fausto:

I hooked up the circuit as you said and I started at no load, 1.26 volts and when I hooked up the 100 ohm resister the voltage started to fall to about .820 volts and is now rising to .836 volts and still going up slowly.  I will let run for a couple hours and then post a graph.  Then tomorrow I will post a second graph. 

David