Terry Chamberlin wrote: > Frank Key said: > >Regarding Terry Chamberlin's comments on ions: > To put all the definitions into practical perspective > requires only that one understand the following > sentence. > > >The difference between silver ions and silver > particles boils down to the fact that silver ions > combine with chloride ions to form silver chloride and > silver particles do not.< > > All that you are saying is that charged silver > particles smaller than a certain size (what you are > designating *ionic*) interact with chloride in a > certain way, and charged or non-charged particles > bigger than a certain size (what you are calling > *colloidal*) do not.
It does almost appear that way, except a two atom ion/particle does seems to exist. As an ion it can be silver oxide Ag2O, and as a particle it can be Ag2. They are both 2 atoms, but the particle one will not react with AgCl, but the ionic one will. Just what the difference is in these two is difficult to say, except one is reactive and the other is not. 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>
