Hello Marshall, ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Dudley <mdud...@execonn.com> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Friday, 5 November 1999 04:06 Subject: Re: CS>round conductive pot idea
> Ivan Anderson wrote: > > > Hi Marshal, James H-M, > > > > I believe that the silver, which has been disassociated during > > generation at low current density, exist as single silver ions not > > clumps. > > It is not until the power is withdrawn that the ions flocculate into > > stable clusters of multi-ion particles. > > This can be easily disproved by shining a laser thought the water while > it is being made. If they were ions, there would be no Tyndall. But if > you do it you will see the Tyndall build up continuously until you remove > the power, at which time it stabalizes. Well that is just the thing, I have no Tyndal effect until well after the power is withdrawn. > Since the ions are all positively charged, they would mutually repel each > other. What force would bring to together to flocculate with each other > once the current is removed? Van de Waals force is a long range attractive force occuring between any two particles of the same material and is present in all lyophobic sols. The electrostatic repulsion which opposes aggrigation, and the attractive force which acts to bind particles together if they come into close enough contact, is explained by the DLVO theory. > > > I remember Bob Lee saying > > something along these lines, some time ago. > > In electroplating a silver anode is used to replace the silver ions > > deposited at the cathode. There are many parameters which are > > manipulated in silver plating to provide a smooth shiny finish, not > > least being the metal that the silver is being deposited on. > > In the case of silver plating, then the liquid will have silver cyanide, > silver nitrate, or other water soluable silver compound dissolved in it. > In that case then the silver does indeed travel as ions. But we have > already deteremined that if you have salts involved you get compounds of > silver and that is why you want only distilled water. The point is, that the initial supply of silver ions, as supplied by the dissolved silver salt, is depleated in plating the cathodic objects, but, is resupplied by the dissolution of the silver anode as silver ions into the solution, not as clumps. In other words, I suspect the same ionic dissolution of the siver anode takes place in distilled water, in low current DC systems. > Marshall Regards Ivan -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
