Re: ppm measurement techniques?

1998-07-30 Thread M. G. Devour
George Martin wrote: Place the electrodes, still wet and full of fluff or oxide, on the pieces of pre-weighed paper. Bake in oven to drive off the water. Weigh the combined paper/electrode/dried fluff. (Don't sneeze!) Subtract the paper and you'll get the actual mass of silver that

Re: ppm measurement techniques?

1998-07-29 Thread Susan M. Yensen
Hi, What a mind boggling exploration here! So many genius' here and with just a hair of an invite we get a very good education. Of course when your brain looks like fried eggs in a skillet, or was that your brain on drugs?? Well anyway it is stimulating and then the decisions, darn don't

Re: ppm measurement techniques?

1998-07-29 Thread Frank Matzka
Great and creative ways to seperate the silver from water, but why not just weigh the solution? 1 litre of pure water weighs 1 Kg so anything over 1000gms is silver. Better yet! You could weigh the electrodes before and after(dried). Anybody got any ideas on how to build a scale sensitive

Re: ppm measurement techniques?

1998-07-28 Thread Bill Kingsbury
At 11:38 PM 7-27-98 -5, Mike D. wrote: We could save some money and get quicker results if some of us could do our own ppm testing. Here's a couple of ideas I'd like to discuss and, hopefully, refine enough to make work. Mike, My understanding is that ppm testing is only meaningful if the

ppm measurement techniques?

1998-07-28 Thread M. G. Devour
We could save some money and get quicker results if some of us could do our own ppm testing. Here's a couple of ideas I'd like to discuss and, hopefully, refine enough to make work. The first idea is to evaporate a quantity of CS to be tested, say 100 ml (1/10th of a liter), and weigh the