I have some soldering flux. I do not believe it will affect pure silver and will try to do the experiment over the weekend. If it does, then that will be good news for those who want to remove silver stains and have been unable to do so.
Marshall Peter Rebaudo wrote: > Marshall: > > It was solid silver. > I observed It, from the time it was half gone until it was completely gone > and always retained an opaque silver color > > Peter R > ---------------------------- > > My guess is that it was a 14K silver plated copper chain, and the copper > reacted with the acid. There is no acid that will attack pure silver metal > at room temperature alone. If there was then cleaning stains left by > evaporated CS would be easy. > > Marshall > > Peter Rebaudo wrote: > > > Marshall Wrote > > > > silver is one of the most inert metals there is, it is slightly more > > reactive than gold, but > > not much. You can drop it into fuming nitric, sulfuric and hydrochloric > > acids > > (independently) and nothing happens. > > > > Marshal: > > > > As a child once I try to clean a silver chain in an Ounce of the acid > > tinners use to solder. The chain completely dissolved after a few minutes. > > > > What kind of acid do You think it was? > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
