Cooking with HHO , my experiments so far

[CrazyEwok]

as you were wanting to use the magnetic fields to break down the water and not a current why were you using an electrolyte?

[triffid]

Because the patent and the other two articles I had mentioned said that an electrolyte had been used.By the way that is a good question.I had not thought to ask it myself.Triffid

[triffid]

I took all the info I had ,the patent had an electric current mentioned in it because it was trying to state that less current was needed when magnetic fields were present than when they are not present.The other two articles simply stated that it worked and no one knew why exactly.But in repeating the experiment I did find the reason it worked.Triffid

[triffid]

I tend to set up some experiments and let them run for weeks.So after a couple of days when someone sees bubbles and tears down the experiment to put away the equipment will not see the destruction of the nickle plating that I saw after a week or two of operation.Triffid

[Farrah Day]

You certainly seem to have a strange way of going about things Triffid.

Anyway, with a metallic salt as an electrolyte, there will be plenty of ions in the solution. These ions will be influenced into movement by an alternating magnetic field, just as electrons in a metal conductor are influenced by an alternating magnetic field. The important thing is that the magnetic field has to be either moving or constantly changing. A static magnetic field by itself will do nothing.

The movement created by the metallic salt ions will itself induce electric fields encouraging the water molecule to ionise.

Water alone does not self-ionise enough to be affected by a magnetic field, and the water molecule being electrically neutral will not be affected either, this is why an electrolyte is added.