Gold Water Liquor

FIGURE 14.17 A diaphragm cell tor the electrolytic production of sodium hydroxide from brine (aqueous sodium chloride solution), represented by the blue color. The diaphragm (gold color) prevents the chlorine produced at the titanium anodes from mixing with the hydrogen and the sodium hydroxide formed at the steel cathodes. The liquid (cell liquor) is drawn off and the water is partly evaporated. The unconverted sodium chloride crystallizes, leaving the sodium hydroxide dissolved in the cell liquor. 

Ion chromatography is not only used to monitor the water quality, but also to analyze a variety of process liquors that are employed in the manufacture of printed circuit boards. This includes cleansers, palladium-based activators, and various electroplating baths such as acidic and electroless copper baths, tin/lead baths, electrolytical nickel baths, and gold baths. The analytical chemistry of the key substances contained in these baths is described in detail in the preceding chapter. 

Transmutation into gold is also mentioned in the received text of the Scripture of the Golden Liquor, which states that if you add yellow clay to the Golden Water and the Mercury [Water], and calcine them (duan) over an intense fire for one day, they will entirely transmute themselves into gold. ... 

Elixir for the Nomination to Immortal. The fifth and final part of the received Scripture of the Golden Liquor concerns another elixir. By adding yellow clay to the Gold and Mercury Waters one obtains gold after one day of heating, and the Elixir for the Nomination to Immortal after two days. When one ingests this elixir, one will be able to retire to a mountain or a river and become an immortal. This is referred to in identical terms by Ge Hong ... 

Industrial applications include air conditioning, odor control, solvent recovery, liquid purification such as removal of CI2 from water, enzyme and catalyst support with the ability to maintain uniform controllable heat over a large area, recovery of gold and other precious metals from waste liquors (if the ACC is made an anode, the polarity can be reversed to recover the metal), control of premature ripening of products such as bananas (when they ripen during storage, they emit ethylene, which causes fruit in the immediate vicinity to... 

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