Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
Well this is my point; how do you know you were electrolysing hydrogen ions from water molecules, and not from the HCl? What I'm saying is that I'm not convinced adding ions increases the rate of breakdown of H2O. I wouldn't be surprised if it does but this doesn't seem like the experiment to show it.
Well, if we were somehow obtaining chlorine and hydrogen gases, we would have detected the smell of chlorine in the oxygen. The hydrogen we burned, which was fun.