How is silver oxide made.?

Question

I have a project I am working on, trying to make ozone by arc'ing two rods, but am worried about hexavalent chromium, so I subsituted the 316ss rods with 99.99 pure silver, what will I get out of this. Will I still get ozone with traces of silver in it, or what? Thanks in advance, I am using 12,000 volts for the arc. Fed with medical grade oxygen.

Answer 1

it is an experiment. you probably wont know until the end. my thought is that the silver would work quite well. as long as the arc does not melt the rods the oxides should form slowly on the ends of the rods. if you have silver splatter, clean the tips and increase the distance between them. it should not be floating in the sample air. i am also not a chemist, i am an EE.

should work fine.