m1tanker78
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Fused NaCl Electrolysis - White smoke
What is the dense white smoke that is evolved during electrolysis of fused NaCl? I've read that it's sodium peroxide/oxide and read elsewhere that
it's just NaCl. I collected some and bubbled it through water thinking I'd have a dilute NaOH solution but the pH is neutral. So is it just saline?
Tom
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Quote: Originally posted by m1tanker78  | What is the dense white smoke that is evolved during electrolysis of fused NaCl? I've read that it's sodium peroxide/oxide and read elsewhere that
it's just NaCl. I collected some and bubbled it through water thinking I'd have a dilute NaOH solution but the pH is neutral. So is it just saline?
Tom |
Well.... like the yellow stuff in chicken shit ... yellow chicken shit...
perhaps it's sodium chloride vapour. Nothing a little silver nitrate
couldn't reveal.
[Edited on 31-1-2011 by The WiZard is In]
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