Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
No all I've ever said is that water may conduct better when you add salt because you've just put a load of ions in to electrolyse, not because you're making the water itself easier to electrolyse. :l

You say all the electrolyte does is 'makes a current flow' but the way electrolytes do this is by being electrolysed. How, chemically, do the ions help the electrolysis of the water?
Lol I don't think we've been on the same page from the start. All I've been saying is that pure water can't be electrolyzed because no electrical field can propagate in it. The water will always be electrolyzed to the same degree for a given amount of current it is exposed to (regardless of what is floating in it). The electrolyte exposes the water to a larger amount of the current that is put in, that is why I said it improves the process of electrolysis (I may have used a series of terms that weren't 100% accurate).