Dan Nave wrote: > This agrees with my experimental results where I had to use about 3 > drops of H2O2 > to clear 12 oz. of slightly yellowed CS. Any less removed the yellow > color but left the CS cloudy. > > However, I'd appreciate if you could clear up a few things for me... > > What is the final proportion of ionic to colloidal content? 50/50?
I really don't know. It depends on the rates of conversion from colloid to silver oxide, and silver oxide to colloid. If the rates are the same, then one might expect 50/50. However since silver oxide spontaneously converts back and forth with silver hydroxide when in solution, and I do not believe silver hydroxide takes part in the reaction with H2O2, if the conversion between H2O2 and silver oxide and back again are the same, it could be 66.6/33.3 If the rates are different each direction, then it is anyone's guess. > > > Are you calling silver hydroxide the colloidal part and > silver oxide the ionic part? No, both silver oxide Ag2O and silver hydroxide AgOH are ionic. If you have one you have the other when in water, they continually convert from one to the other, and I believe approach a 50/50 ratio at the solubility limit. I believe at lower concentrations the AgOH tends to dominate though. 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: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
