Wow, ![](oogle really IS my friend!! Here’s a great website which addresses this whole shebang, including the idea that these kinds of pseudo science is embraced by people who are uneducated enough to be wowed by the “jargon” used by the shucksters.
http://www.chem1.com/CQ/ionbunk.html
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<H3>Pure water cannot undergo significant electrolysis
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One more thing about the electrolysis of pure water: because of the very small number of ions in pure water, it conducts electric current very poorly, so the process is extremely slow and inefficient. This means that if your water supply is free of mineral impurities, no significant amount of electrolysis will occur.
For electrolysis to occur to any practical extent, additional ions must be present in order to transport the current. For example, the large-scale electrolysis of water to manufacture highly pure H2 and O2 is carried out by adding sulfuric acid. The sulfate ions help carry the current, but they do not react at the positive electrode because H2O is more easily decomposed.
… so if your water comes from a well and contains dissolved salts or “hardness ions” such as calcium or magnesium in medium concentrations, electrolysis might be possible, but it will not be effective in removing impurities. It should be noted that groundwaters are usually somewhat alkaline to start with.
[IMG]http://www.chem1.com/CQ/water_electrolysis_NaCl.png)Many “water ionizer” devices depend on the addition of ordinary salt to make the water more conductive. Electrolysis of a dilute sodium chloride solution liberates hydrogen gas and hydroxide ions at the cathode, producing an alkaline solution that consists essentially of sodium hydroxide NaOH which can be drawn off as “alkaline water”. At the anode, chloride ions are oxidized to elemental chlorine. If some of this chlorine is allowed to combine with some of the hydroxide ions produced at the cathode, it disproportionates into hypochlorous acid HOCl, a weak acid and an oxidizing agent. Some ionizer devices allow the user to draw off this solution for use as a disinfecting agent. In many cases the two streams can be combined to form a mixture consisting of both HOCl and sodium hypochlorite (equivalent to diluted ordinary laundry bleach), depending on the pH desired.
So buying a “water ionizer” is a very expensive way of obtaining a solution that you could in principle make yourself by diluting some laundry bleach, and perhaps adjusting the pH by adding a weak acid such as lemon juice. But would you want to drink this “eau de Clorox”? Don’t try this at home!
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The guy is talking about the “water ionizers” but in so doing, he seems to be revealing some of the mystery behind this Vetrocyn stuff - Seems to me like they took the idea of ionizing water and mixed stuff together to make this “eau de Clorox”. Seems like you’re buying the stuff the Ionizers purport to make. Lemon Salt Bleach. Lovely. That’s where I want MY hard earned money to go.
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