Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[sutra]

Dear Jenna

several small beads were attached to the metal cork (the lid of any glass beer bottle) to measure the voltage, I just connected an electrode to the cork and the other one on the little bead....till these were adhering on the metal...

Before slicing the material I'll have to obtain a congruous and solid compound able to withstand the sawing....
...the amount of carbon in the borax mix i far too high, I think. The molten borax must be enough to inglobe the whole mixture forming a glassy compound just lika what I've obtained with the sugar....I'll have to see further what mix will work.

The sugar option is also tickling my immagination.... what do you think?

Ciao ciao and thanks

[jeanna]

metal cork (the lid of any glass beer bottle)

Interesting. I think in the states a beer top has something that resembles sodium silicate in the place of cork. It might be a good substrate for someone here. (If it isn't the beer top I am sure the SoBe juice bottles use something like this)

Before slicing the material I'll have to obtain a congruous and solid compound able to withstand the sawing....

What I had in my mind was that you could make pancakes in discrete sizes and then a sort of voltaic pile by stacking layers of them. It may be too runny to work like that. It was what I wanted to do with the one I tried but it crumbled with only a little pressure from the probes.

sugar a sweet idea, but what about the ants?
Between you and Ian with his aspirin...


keep up the good work,
jeanna

[ian middleton]

G'Day all,

Heres a quick reveiw of a mix I made on the 2nd march.

31.3gm         fine grain sand
15.5gm         fine iron pyrites dust
1.5gm           borax
2.0 gm          calcium carbonate
2.1gm           sodium carbonate
2.1gm           crushed  tourmaline

to all of this 15ml of concentrated sodium silicate was added and cooked.
A polarizing  voltage of 12 volts was applied for just over 3 hours while the mix was cooling.

A 330kohm resistor was place across the cell and the initial cell voltage was 1.337V

After 24 hours the voltage was 1.336V
The resistor was changed to 100kohm to draw more current.   1.317Volts @ 12.5 uA

I will leave this resistor in place until the cell voltage stablizes or reduces to zero. There is still a galvanic reaction going on until
the cell fully crystalizes. This may take a week or two.

I'll keep you posted.

Anyway my Gallium arrived yesterday. I bought 50gm but actually recieved 60gm.
Warning!   The Gallium melts in your hand just like a good lump of gallium should do. So I put it into a glass specimen bottle and waited for it to freeze. It didn't. So I put it in the fridge for 30 mins. Still didn't solidify.

So I put the bottle in the freezer for 30 mins. DONT.  The gallium solidified, expanded ( I should have known better)  and shattered the bottle. A nice little mess.

Soooooooo!  Koen lets see what mischief you can get up to with yours 

@jeanna   I've actually been using the aspirin for the correct reasons this time 

Catch you later

Ian

[sutra]

@ Ian,

pretty cool result, dude!

@ All:

I've repeated the experiment of the cork with a much highier quantity of borax, highier temperature (melting point of borax)  and no graphite at all: in this the fire helped me with a couple of nice chunks of charred coals (unwanted) and ash embedded in the cell...

The cell was ready in about 10 minutes...

Results?....

Yeah, 50 mV sandwiched between the metal cork and one chunk of charred coal...the quantity of materials used are really small... the voltage results to be very unstable....dropping fast,  but rising up very fast as the tester electrodes are removed...
Solidification occurred in strong magnetic field, only.

Next test will be done with a pencil graphite core as electrode, adding some wood ashes to the initial mix, hematite, the usual cork (It would be better something deeper as the borax tend to expand too much during first contact with heat...) and a better stirring...

I'll keep you posted...

Ciao 

[ian middleton]

G'day all,

Today I thought I would try something different. Instead of using water as the fluid in the mix I used molten sulphur.

I won't go into the specific ingedients in this mix, suffice to say there was enough sulphur to soak them all in.
The sodium silicate I did use was anhydrate.

Once the mix was molten ( around 140C ) it was poured into an aluminium tube, a copper electrode stuffed down the middle and 2KV
applied across the cell. That was fine.

However a spark of any description has the ability to ignite molten sulphur, and it did !
So now my kitchen smells like the gates of hell to wit a friend of mind commented that I should get used to it.

Anyway once the flames were out I put the cell in a plastic container of sand, one to support it and two to slow the cooling process.
The cell was polarized for 20 minutes with 2KV.
After 20 mins I disconnected the HV and discovered another interesting fact.

Dry sand in an insulated container makes a very good capacitor, good enough to hold 2KV. Pulling the cell out of the sand was a shocking experience. 

Anyway the cell is a good capacitor and will hold a charge but does not operate as a current source.

So although this was a spectacular failure it was also another step on the path to success 

I seem to remember something about clay pots and sand as a power source, can anyone please jog my memory.

catch you later

Ian