Abstract: A method for infusing substances into liquids through the use of electrolysis allows mixtures having controlled concentrations at predetermined proportions to be produced. The liquids with infused substances may be used as feedstuff for plants and/or animals; e.g., water mixed with magnesium compounds may be used to enrich the diets of plankton and/or cattle. The electrolysis apparatus allows the infusion to occur continuously into a flowing stream of liquid, allows the rate of infusion to be controlled, to a predetermined concentration regardless of the flow rate of the stream and affords means of self-cleaning to the electrodes to maintain the electrolytic reactions at high coulometric efficiency.

Abstract: A self-energizing water treating assembly capable of being either removably disposed in a container through which a stream of water flows or in a tank containing a stationary body of water to render the water slightly alkaline, remove free dissolved oxygen from the water, forms gelatinous thixotropic suspensions that envelops foreign particled material in the water and render the same substantially tasteless and odorless, and minimizes the tendency of minerals in the water being deposited as hard scale on the tubes or containers in which the water is heated or transformed to steam.

Abstract: A method of minimizing corrosion in an iron plumbing system of the non-recirculating type through which water intermittently flows by interposing a magnesium anode therein that is electrically connected thereto to provide a galvanic couple. The magnesium in the anode after transforming from the atomic to the ionic state reacts with dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide in the water to form soluble substantially non-corrosive magnesium salts. The magnesium anode unless subjected to water at a relatively high velocity tends to become enveloped in a protective film of magnesium hydroxide that renders it passive. By superimposing an alternating electric current on the galvanic cell the magnesium hydroxide is dislodged from the anode as it forms at the water interface, with magnesium dissolving into the water at a maximum rate to maintain the water at a pH of above seven and a maximum electrical potential between the anode and the iron plumbing.