Marshall Dudley <mdud...@king-cart.com> wrote: >Mike Monett wrote:
[...] >> Bleach is a good >> substitute for canning salt, and gives a similar white dispersion. >> Ammonia dissolves it just like the silver chloride dispersion from >> salt, but I did a quick search and couldn't find any equations. >That is sodium hypochlorite, which I think ends up forming silver chloride >and releasing oxygen. In that case it should behave like sodium chloride >for doing a "aslt test". > >Marshall OK, thanks. I got NaOCl and NaClO2 mixed up. For the "alst test" using NaOCl, I couldn't find any equations but it looks like it is probably 2Ag(+) + 2NaOCl --> 2Na(+) + O2 + 2AgCl So the oxygen is just stuck on like O3 and H2O2, which is why household bleach decomposes fairly rapidly. You can see graphs here or download software to do the calculation at different temperatures: http://www.powellfab.com/technical_information/tools/decompsoftware.asp Mike M -- 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 Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
