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> 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.
Eric,
I'll bet you're right -- in fact, when I was playing with this stuff
when I was a kid, and powered a couple of copper wires with a train
xformer and put them into salt water, they made lots of bubbles,
presumably H2 and O2, and turned the copper lots of darker colors,
presumably from atoms other than copper leaving and coming back.
> 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?
I did say "bronze atoms" didn't I? Doh! You're right -- it's copper
with zinc, tin, lead, manganese, beryllium, nickel, aluminum, or
whatever else they decide to throw into the mix, from various web sites
I just looked at.
Dick
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