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Re: Water electrolysis

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Water electrolysis
From: Paul Sears <psears at nrn1_NRCan.gc.ca>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:59:53 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199812050848.DAA26549 at acme_actwin.com> from "Aquatic Plants Digest" at Dec 5, 98 03:48:02 am

> From: "David W. Webb" <dwebb at ti_com>
> Subject: Re: Carbo-plus CO2 system
> 
> In water electrolysis, Oxygen is released at the anode and Hydrogen is
> released at the cathode.  Might Calcium electroplate against the cathode
> while the water is reducing?  In the presence of water, the Calcium
> would not be able to form a lasting plate, but might form CaOH on the
> cathode, perhaps?

	In a word, no.  H+ will always be discharged before Ca++.


-- 
Paul Sears        Ottawa, Canada

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