by Brigit » Sun Aug 23, 2020 7:42 pm
Yes, the Sodium was from using rain water from a container that had wood ash in it at some point.
Water contamination is an interesting variable. I am glad it was Sodium, because most of our planet is covered with salt water, and it was fun to see the color of the flame was not as expected, but that it was traceable to water contamination.
If you ran it with genuine ocean water you would also see the Chlorine and Bromine escape into the gasometer which was used to collect the CO and the H2.
This would be an imitation on a microscopic scale of what happens all of the time when lightning strikes the earth's oceans.
Therefore, the presence of the halogens in our atmosphere are almost entirely from natural sources, not from manufacturing, fire retardants, transformer oils, or from refrigeration and air conditioning; it is from arcs in sea water and from volcanoes, and that in unquantifiable amounts.
Yes, the Sodium was from using rain water from a container that had wood ash in it at some point.
Water contamination is an interesting variable. I am glad it was Sodium, because most of our planet is covered with salt water, and it was fun to see the color of the flame was not as expected, but that it was traceable to water contamination.
If you ran it with genuine ocean water you would also see the Chlorine and Bromine escape into the gasometer which was used to collect the CO and the H2.
This would be an imitation on a microscopic scale of what happens all of the time when lightning strikes the earth's oceans.
Therefore, the presence of the halogens in our atmosphere are almost entirely from natural sources, not from manufacturing, fire retardants, transformer oils, or from refrigeration and air conditioning; it is from arcs in sea water and from volcanoes, and that in unquantifiable amounts.