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What do I need to create water with negatively charged ions?

Started Jan 8, 2022 | Questions thread
ProfHankD
ProfHankD Veteran Member • Posts: 9,147
Re: What do I need to create water with negatively charged ions?
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Darkmatterx76 wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

The electricity also does something else. It arranges the molecules in a very structured way. As the ice later warms and starts to melt, geometric seams form in the ice that seem to glow due to how light interacts with the seams.

The other issue. Safely adding electricity to metal in water. I'm also not entirely sure yet how to make sure that the charge makes the ions negatively charged.

The key trick that I'm aware of is using water that has few impurities (especially not calcium -- that makes ice cubes with a dull white coat on them!) and removing the air bubbles in the water before freezing. I think slow freezing does that, but boiling the water first is a trick I've heard many times.

I also know that freezing cells while exposing them to microwaves tends to cause less damage to the cells because the ice crystals don't form in a way that breaks the cell walls. Basically, that problem has to do with the fact that water initially expands when it freezes, thus formation of large crystals causes locally large expansions that can rupture cell walls. Perhaps passing an electrical current has a similar effect -- disruption or promotion of crystaline nucleation sites? Not my field.... 

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