In a message dated 6/17/00 7:54:31 AM EST, [email protected] writes: << That is what I am saying Roger, this is not a catalytic reaction, but rather a relatively straight forward redox reaction. The catalytic reaction, as used in hydrogen peroxide rocket motors, induces a cascade reaction in the water producing heat and steam (theories on how this happens are not consistent). The silver does wear out in time. When I deliberately made a colloid that had a lot of sludge inclusion and was a deep gold colour, the introduction of H2O2 caused an immediate reaction in the form of many extremely small bubbles (made the sample look cloudy) and the colloid became clear. The ionic content was significantly higher after this reaction than before, as measured by Ion Selective Electrode. There was no such reaction with a light golden colloid which I know to be composed of a high proportion of ionic clusters (ISE ionic reading = AA total silver reading) and the concentration remained the essetially the same (slight increase). The plugging of the compounds into a couple of reaction predictors (the outputs of these are pasted into my post) confirms this evidence. Until the weight of evendence proves otherwise, this is my conclusion.
Ivan: I don't inderstand the last two sentenses. Would you please elaborate. -- 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: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
