Hi folks, Will someone please draw me a picture of a CS particle and its surrounding water with a "static charge" on the CS,?
-----Original Message----- From: rogalt...@aol.com <rogalt...@aol.com> To: silver-list@eskimo.com <silver-list@eskimo.com> Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 9:04 AM Subject: Re: CS>Producing CS using HVAC Probably Restructures the Water itisMadein >In a message dated 00-04-25 10:16:56 EDT, you write: > ><< I disaggree here, it is quite possible to manufacture a silver colloid > by precipitating the NO3 from a silver nitrate solution, leaving only > the silver ions in solution. The fact that the water molecules > surround the charged silver particles creates the local neutrality you > mention, at the edge of the water layer.>> > >Frankly, I'm baffled by this statement. However, since nitrate ions are not >present in my model of what is occuring, I prefer not to travel down this >road. > > > >> Well, that is getting low and rain water has a deal of other dissolved > substances also, whereas distilled water has little of these and does > readily absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. CO2 absorption may be a > contributing factor, indeed when making pH measurements which are > lower than expected this is the first place to look.<< > >Ivan: I don't think you understood what I was saying. Let me try to make this >point another way. Bubble air into distilled water and continue to measure >the pH until the cows come home and tells us what you get. > >>> It is perfectly possible to have a colloid of an insoluble substance. > Silver itself could not be a colloid if it were soluble. AgO and AgOH > will swap around depending on the pH of the solution and may have a > very small particle size, besides which most insoluble substances are > soluble to some degree.<< > >Have you identified these species using SEM, TEM or by x-ray diffraction >methods. If not, where's the evidence for such compounds? > > >> Yes that's true enough, although I have tried to show that your theory > of polarised water molecules being the cause of a low pH reading to be > unlikely.< > >Ivan: I don't believe you have even begun to do that. > >> I know that free Ag+ ions exist in my CS because I could not read them > with my ISE if it were otherwise, and I would be happy to test your CS > for the same, if you foot the bill for postage to New Zealand<g> > >If Ag+ ions exist, what are the counter-balancing anions. Static charge on >colloidal silver particles is one thing, but separate positive or negative >ions existing without INTIMATE association with ions of the opposite charge >is impossible, and to suggest otherwise is incomprehensible to me. > >Roger > > >-- >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 >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net> > >
