What happened to pure metallic silver suspended particles? Why only dissolved silver oxide?
Ode At 11:23 PM 8/20/2004 -0400, you wrote: >OK, I just ran a test. > >I started with 5 ppm EIS, approximately 80% ionic. I put equal amounts into to >containers, and added a few drops of H2O2 to one of them. I could see no >difference between, they were both crystal clear. I then added a pinch of salt >to both. The one without H2O2 immediately formed AgCl and turned milky. The one >that had had H2O2 added to it stayed crystal clear. > >I can think of only 2 possibilities for this: > >1. Silver ions were reduced to a colloid of silver atoms. >2. Silver ions became silver oxide, and it dissolved. > > >But the second one would only be possible if silver oxide when mixed with NaCl >does not become silver chloride. I think that mixing silver oxide dissolved in >water with NaCl will become silver chloride, but I am not sure. Any chemists >here that know the answer to that one? If the second one is disproved, than it >appears that H2O2 will reduce silver ions to silver atoms. > >Marshall > > >-- >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> > >
