To all the smart and clever people on this list:
I remember a discussion of water ionizers on this egroup and figured you would know the answer to my questions. Several years ago I bought a water ionizer unit (the "Athena"), which malfunctioned a couple of times. After dealing with a corrupt, inept, greedy company-whose inferior packing in fact contributed to breakage on at least one occasion-I convinced my great-with-tools-and-building-things significant other that as long as we had a unit in our possession that couldn't be used in its current state, he might as well open it up and see about fixing it himself. So he went onto You Tube and watched a few videos on how to create a water ionizer, and is now in the process of trying to repair it. My question concerns the material comprising the electrodes. Obviously, stainless steel is not a good material for water ionizer electrodes, because we don't want heavy metal to contaminate the water. The best homemade ionizers (and I'm assuming commercially manufactured ones too) use electrodes made of titanium. Some sellers of JUST the electrodes coat the titanium electrodes with palladium, claiming that the palladium is inert and will prevent the titanium from tarnishing (and thus releasing metallic ions into the water). However, after doing some research on titanium, I discovered that besides being the 9th most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust, titanium is made into airplanes because comparatively speaking it's not very heavy and DOESN'T RUST. So, is it necessary to use a palladium-covered set of titanium rods for electrodes? This may be a moot point for me now. Either my unit will be repaired, or we'll use its electrodes in a homemade unit. However, I still wonder about the materials used for water ionizer electrodes. I appreciate your input. Thanks in advance. Nenah Nenah Sylver, PhD author, The Rife Handbook of Frequency Therapy and Holistic Health healing from cancer and other diseases with non-invasive, effective technology suppressed by the medical cartel until recently <http://www.nenahsylver.com> www.nenahsylver.com
