Charge Containing Capacitance
and Charge Motion Inductance
Universal and Ubiquitous
Transmission and Reception
More and more often we see and we recognize
the parabolic dish antennae used to receive satellite transmissions
of television signals.
Less often, we see tall towers, supported by guy wires,
like needles pointing into the sky used to transmit even radio signals.
If we submerge a needle-like structure and a smooth, polished dish in hot salt water,
the needle will behave as a cathode, a charge emitting electrode,
and the smooth polished dish will behave as an anode,
an electron deficient or charge deficient electrode.
This can be measured with a sensitive microvolt meter or microamp meter.
If a sphere, a smooth polished sphere, is substituted for the dish,
the potential is even greater.
In general, the high surface to volume ratio of the needle
makes it behave as a cathode.
The low surface to volume ratio of the sphere makes it behave as an anode.
The other requirement is that they both be metallic.
The cathodic emission of the needle makes it like a transmitter.
The anodic absorption of the sphere makes it like the receiving parabolic dish.
Cathodes and anodes involve direct currents.
Transmitters and receivers involve alternating current.
Every atom is and has aspects of cathodes and anodes
and is and has aspects of transmitters and receivers.
The scale, geometric pattern and the symmetry or asymmetry
of the charge structures and the charge motions
give each atom its cathodic and anodic nature and behaviour
and its transmissive and receptive nature and behaviour.
This constitutes aspects of the chemical nature
of the fundamental types of chemical bonds: the ionic bond, the metallic bond
and the covalent bond.
This cathodic and anodic character and this transmission and receptive character
also typifies the categories of the periodic table:
the conductors, the insulators and the semiconductors.
The conductors are the metals. The insulators are the non-metals.
The semiconductors are the borderland atomic elements.
Much of the predictive nature of chemistry is able to be translated
into this cathodic and anodic, this transmissive and receptive character
of the reactant atomic elements and the molecules they form.
Acid like cathodic behaviour and alkaloid like anodic behaviour indicate this.
Reduction like cathodic behavior and oxidation like anodic behaviour
also indicates this.
The cathodic and anodic properties and the transmissive and receptive properties
are typical of the perceptions of the physicist or physical chemist versus the conventional chemist.
It is the scale, the geometry and the symmetry or asymmetry of the charge structure,
its posture, its position, its state and / or the pattern of the charge motions
that generate these cathodic and anodic properties of these transmissive
and receptive properties.
In the ionic bond a charge or charges are transferred
from one member reactant to another, creating the bonding force of attraction
which holds the ions together.
In the covalent bond the charge or charges are shared by the member reactants.
In the metallic bond some of the charges are released into the crystalline lattice
and the member reactants are statistically bonded by the charge deficiency
of every atom.
Typical structural chemical notation indicates the charge structure pattern.
The quantum mechanical charge configuration indicates the charge motion pattern.
The charge structure and the quantum mechanical charge configuration
of the noble gases show why these atomic elements react rarely and difficultly.
The salience of the alkaloids and the halides
show why they react quickly and strongly.
Another property which may be translated into these common terms of the physicist
or physical chemist’s perception is absorption and emission spectra.
Chart 1.
cathodic anodic
transmitter receiver
needle dish
conductor – metal insulator – non metal
reduction oxidation
acidic alkaline
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