Ok well just yesterday I began trying to make some rust for another experiment i will be doing. So basically my setup is this, ive got a 12v adapter with the ends stripped plugged into the wall, and the negative wire has a huge bolt so it wont "erode" quickly and the positive side which is the one that bubbles the most (i think) has an iron nail on it, if i was backwards, you get the idea(The bolt is on the side of the wire that doesnt bubble really at all and the nail is on the side that bubbles a ton and seems to not "erode". So i turn it on and my first batch was fine but it made black and orange stuff, not all orange and when i heated it it turned all orange. Now im on my next batch and a crap load of blue stuff keeps forming on the bolt then sinks to the bottom no matter what i try and it fills like half of the bowl up quickly with the blue gunk and orange stuff accumlates on the top but very little of it (which im guessing is rust or something?). So whats the blue stuff? am i doing this right? Whats going on? Thanks in advance - Samy109
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