Ibpointless2 Crystal Cells

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A chemistry page on acids and their buffers
http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch17/mixtures.php
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Although a single drop of 2 M HCl reduces the pH of 100 mL of water by 4 pH units (from 7 to 3), there is no change in the pH of the buffer when a drop of 2 M HCl is added to 100 mL of this buffer solution. Thus, the pH of the buffer solution is truly "buffered" against the effect of small amounts of acid or base.
Buffers can be made from a weak acid and its conjugate base, such as acetic acid and a salt of the acetate ion.

HOAc(aq)	+	H2O(l)		H3O+(aq)	+	OAc-(aq)
weak acid						conjugate base

Buffers can also be made from a weak base and its conjugate acid, such as ammonia and a salt of the ammonium ion.

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Sodium acetate is the buffer for me to use in the vineagar cells.triffid

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Could someone with magnesium try just epsom salts melted on the magnesium. Epsom salts alone no water added. I think what we have here would be the other perfect rebuilder of magnesium. Like aluminum with borax, I suspect epsom is the repair mechanism for magnesium.


This is my thinking on this. When I used the borax with aluminum and added the other components like the alum (electrolyte)+epsoms I had most of the metal covered. covered in the way of aluminum+borax(protector), alum+epsoms(electrolyte) and the positive was grahite. Any corrosion was quickly repaired by the borax. Hopefully this will be the same way with magnesium+epsoms, seeing that epsoms is magnesium


Ok If we look at the wiki about Water of crystalization and read what we know so far we will understand how these cells operate...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_water

"Water of crystallization is stabilized by electrostatic attractions" and if we look at what a capacitor really is then we can see how we are doing these cells.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor
And this is the definition we need about capacitors: "When there is a potential difference across the conductors, a static electric field develops across the dielectric, causing positive charge to collect on one plate and negative charge on the other plate. Energy is stored in the electrostatic field. An ideal capacitor is characterized by a single constant value, capacitance, measured in farads. This is the ratio of the electric charge on each conductor to the potential difference between them."

I suspect that when aluminum is used the borax is attracted to the potential of the aluminum. With magnesium it should be the same for epsoms. Although the attraction is slight in a solution it should do very well to surround the material we want to protect. and specific crystal structure should arise from the addition of the alum. this structure is now based on the whole unit and a new type of whole unit crystal will form.

If I am correct then we could make a capacitor with these components and not have to worry about corrosion. Just change the dielectric to oil and have the two different plates with zero water and zero oxygen! A self powered capacitor will come out of it. But I suspect this cap will only be useful for pulsed applications and it will be super tuff when compared to reverse voltages or charging because there is nothing to brake down like electrolysis and the kind. If oxygen and water are a concern then the oil could be impregnated with a desiccant that can retain the water to a degree.

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I think IB2 already did magnesium inside a copper tube with just epson salts no water crimped the copper tube to get pressure.He got some volts out of that.No molten epson salts,just dry crystals.triffid