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From: benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: electrolysis of water
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Date: 23 Dec 88 04:16:01 GMT
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>I found an even more interesting solution to use than plain water:
>Well-used photographic fixer.  Photographic fixer works by removing the
>light-sensitive silver from the paper, so the silver compound remains
>in the fixer bath.  If you use fixer, you will discover that one of your
>terminals (the anode, I think) will turn silver colored.  You can actually
>peel off the flakes of silver that form on the terminal.  (Well, when you're
>in high school, these things are pretty neat.)
This is GREAT!  I'm taking a photography class - I'm not sure how much
fixer I can "borrow", but I'll try it.


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