Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How are the movements of ions in water affected by both electrical and magnetic fields at the same time? It sounds complicated (and it is to a chemist), but it produces an amazing result which links with mass spectrometry and might just convince students and charged atoms and molecules (i.e. ions) really exist and have to be taught because they are all around us. I think we have to realise that electrolysis (an endothermic process ) is a consequence of the conductivity of electricity through water, using ions and not electrons. And ion-solvent dipole forces need to be taught at an early stage as an interparticle attraction.
How are the movements of ions in water affected by both electrical and magnetic fields at the same time? It sounds complicated (and it is to a chemist), but it produces an amazing result which links with mass spectrometry and might just convince students and charged atoms and molecules (i.e. ions) really exist and have to be taught because they are all around us. I think we have to realise that electrolysis (an endothermic process ) is a consequence of the conductivity of electricity through water, using ions and not electrons. And ion-solvent dipole forces need to be taught at an early stage as an interparticle attraction.
