In a message dated 6/12/01 9:59:14 AM EST, [email protected] writes: << Subj: Re: CS>Saline Starter Solutions: Do They Deserve Another Look? Date: 6/12/01 9:59:14 AM EST From: [email protected] Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] In a message dated 6/12/01 9:25:50 AM EST, [email protected] writes: << Subj: Re: CS>Saline Starter Solutions: Do They Deserve Another Look? Date: 6/12/01 9:25:50 AM EST From: [email protected] (Ode Coyote) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] Out on a laymans limb here..seeing vaugely? making CS involves adding electrical energy to the electrolyte [charged ions in even more highly charged ions or lots of spare electrons going all over the place?] and if NaCl in ionic form is present, the electricity could strip whatever bonds the salt has and re associated some of the chlorine ions with the silver ions. Ken: I believe that the affinity of aqueous Na+ for aqueous Cl- is much too great for aqueous silver to strip Cl- away from Na+. Roger >>
Ken: I think I'd better amend what I just said before I get pilloried. If silver, in the form of, say, silver nitrate were added to sodium chloride, there is no doubt that silver chloride will form. This is known as a substitution reaction, and I guess if one knew the free energies of formation of all the species in this reaction (in there standard or, as the case may be, nonstandard states), thermodynamics would predict such an outcome. Bottom line: I misspoke, or mistyped, or whatever. I think I'll go back to reading the funny papers. 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: [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]>
