You have nothing if not tenacity Neville! Well done - I will be very
interested to see the outcome...dee
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> On 5 Oct 2014, at 03:03, Neville <one.red...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just a quick update on this.
>
> I decanted and cleaned that container out *again* several days ago before
> returning the solution to the container. Now here it is several days later
> and that spot is reappearing - yet again!
>
> This is truly bizarre?
>
> BUT...!! I think I have worked out what's going on. Like an idiot I used
> litmus paper to check Ph - but tested it in my storage vessel instead of
> pouring a small amount into something else for testing. I believe the paper
> has released something into the solution. If paper is held in the water for
> just a couple of seconds a blueish mist emanates from the paper into the
> water, this would obviously now be a contamination introduced into the water,
> this also I believe is causing the milkiness as some form of compound has now
> developed.
>
> I'm now in the process of doing some back yard bush experimenting to isolate
> the problem. Another update in a couple of weeks perhaps.
>
> Have to say, if I stand on tip toe and stretch my arm really hard I can just
> manage to touch the bottom rung of that knowledge ladder <g>.
>
> From: one.red...@hotmail.com
> To: silver-list@eskimo.com
> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:08:08 +1030
> Subject: CS>Something interesting for the chemist or physicist?
>
>
> milky with extremely strong TE, and the storage vessel had a dark spot in
> the centre on the bottom.
>
> I decanted solution through a coffee filter {which I have never had the need
> to do before, and as it turns out didn't need to this time as nothing was
> left behind to my recollection} and wiped the bottom of vessel clean before
> returning solution to the same vessel from whence it came. This batch had
> probably been in storage for a month.
>
> I checked it the other day and that dark spot was back?
>
> I repeated the aforesaid procedure, minus the filtering.
>
> Checked again a couple of days later and that dark spot had returned yet
> again - What the...???
>
> N.
>
>
