Szaxx,
The experiment is fairly simple but be careful this is really caustic stuff...
Use your ultrasonic cleaner to agitate a supersaturated solution of NaOH at a temp > 65.1C < 100C
See if a sodium reaction generating H2 can be induced as theorized below:
This is a cut--paste from one of Farrah's previous posts on a different forum:
Closed Loop Electrolyzer:
http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/5809-closed-loop-electrolyser-3.html-------------------------------------------------
Sodium metal is extremely reactive and under normal conditions relatively unstable. If we put a piece of sodium metal, (Na), in water it reacts violently, producing sodium hydroxide (lye) and hydrogen (and heat - it's an exothermic reaction).
2Na + 2H2O = 2NaOH + H2
While the hydrogen rises out of the solution, the sodium hydroxide produced will remain in the water forming ions 2Na+ and 2OH-.
Now of course, because this seems to be unknown territory, the chemistry is somewhat unclear and very debatable, but consider this scenario.
A head on collision between a sodium ion Na+ and a hydroxyl ion, OH-… what would happen? What if the energy of the collision was such that the sodium ion temporarily took the electron from the hydroxyl ion?
Na+ + OH- = Na + H + O
Or balanced in favour of molecular gases
2Na+ + 2OH- = 2Na + 2H + 2O
In this scenario we now have highly reactive pure sodium metal in the water, which will instantly react with a water molecule to form sodium hydroxide and in doing so release more hydrogen.
2Na + 2H2O = 2NaOH + H2
The sodium will always remain in the solution, but the water content will gradually reduce as it is dissociated and evolves as gases.
The process outlined above relies on the sodium ion collecting an electron from somewhere in order to become an atom. There are no electrodes from which to do this and we know anyway that H3O+ reacts ahead of Na+ in a normal electrolyser, so it would have to be taken from a –ve ion already within the solution.
I don’t know if the reversible reaction above or indeed the chemistry has any merit in reality, but at least it provides one possible explanation.
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This all kind of evolved from this thread:
The downfalls of conventional electrolysis - and how to fix them
http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=9448.0