I don't get it then, in the first sentence there it says "Corrosion can be avoided by the use of a low-conducting, anti-corrosion liquid (which,
in principle, is also distilled or deionized water)"
Why would you need and anti-corrosive additive added as you pointed out earlier? It clearly says in the first sentence that distilled water will prevent corrosion. What your research fails to point out is what kind of blocks are being used. I would assume they are copper.
... I know thousands of people who do it and not a single person has complained of corrosion. And note: this is using DISTILLED WATER + SILVER COIL + EN blocks.
Because it works like this:
- You have a localised chemistry in the block (area affected) called Crevice corrosion
- This weakens the nickel and causes it to corrode locally exposing the copper
- Exposed copper causes the galvanic cell to become active and accelerates the corrosion further.
This is all caused by adding silver, or disimilar metals (even the same metals have slightly different EV levels as they are not 100% pure), increasing the concentration of ions. Technically when you first add deionised water, its non-conductive, but very quickly, it becomes conductive as ions increase in the solution. Then the above happens. Basic chemistry.
Also, I very much doubt you know thousands of people.
Finally thanks for the great post. But if you go to OC website you will see your thousands of people recommending NOT to use silver coil. Also, you might note, (if you hadn't already), i water cool too.