I am speaking in general terms. Salts dissolve in water, along with
many other things. Soluble in water means that the bonds holding the
compound together break when water is introduced, like salts, or sugar.
If you take some dirt, it will go into the water, but will probably not
dissolve much, and the wet dirt will settle to the bottom. Some of the
dirt might be fine enough, of a small enough particle size to be
suspended in water. Some of that will be clay sized, and will also
settle to the bottom after some time, a tiny percentage might be finer
still, and will not settle out- it will stay suspended in water, and
this would be the colloid fraction. A colloid is a size of particle.
All this will occur in water, tap water, that normally has other stuff
dissolved in the water as well.
Now with getting silver to be ionically in solution requires that the
water be very pure and have nothing else in it, or else the silver will
react with whatever is there, and then you would have silver compounds.
So it is not really soluble in water, it is an artificial solution made
with specific parameters.
There are silver salts, like silver nitrate, which will dissolve in
water, but that is not what we are after. That is caustic and
poisonous. Silver by itself is pretty safe and non-toxic. Silver in
compound form is not either, most of the time. It has become something
entirely different, and has new properties specific to whichever
compound has been made.
I hope this has helped some.... Kathryn
On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:02 PM, Malcolm wrote:
Hi Kathryn,
Are you referring to the process as it (ionic silver solution) is made
electrically, or in general? Ionic silver is soluble in water, fairly
slightly, like 20 ppm or more or less, depending. It's not a compound
that dissolves ionically like salt. But that brings up the other side
of the thing; some substances dissolve in water non-ionically; would
the addition of sugar or ether, or ??? result in precipitation of the
"ionic" silver out of solution or perhaps as hydroxide, or some strange
organic silver salt??
Does a form of silver exist as ionic other than as it is formed in
water?
Confusion reigns; Malcolm
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:28 -0500, Clayton Family wrote:
A colloid is not soluble, it is a suspension.
snippity snip************************
The ionic silver is only in the water because there is nothing else in
the water. If there was anything else in the water, it would combine
with it. So, ionic silver is not really water soluble either, not in
the way salt is water soluble. Ah the beauties of definitions.
Kathryn
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