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From: Eric Thompson (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2001 - 11:00:41 EDT
Dick,
I don't know for sure but I WOULD BET that the original
atoms from your prop would be gone on the one half cycle and
then replaced by whatever atoms were most mobile in the
surrounding seawater during the other half cycle.
Oh by the way, bronze is an alloy so there are bronze
molecules not atoms. There are copper atoms and iron atoms
and whatever the copper is mixed with to make it bronze, but
no bronze atoms.
Picky, picky,ain't I?
Eric Thompson
S/V Procrastinator
South San Francisco
Dick wrote,
From the point of view of electroplating, or more to the
point
unplating, it would certainly seem like AC would not be as
harmful as
DC. On one half cycle some bronze atoms from your prop
might become
dissociated from the prop, but then on the other half cycle,
wouldn't
they just go right back where they came from?
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