Silver list/ers/eners. My new long thin vase is stained with a faint tinge of a yellow copperish stain. I proudly announced recently that I'd graduated alchemy-like - from silver colloids of the grey milky variety to the yellow goldish - lets say the more "noble type". But alas, its staining my flower vase. What! Why? how can it be?
It won't come off - even with a metal scouring pad. What hellishly alchemy - type of reaction has taken place?!!. Is it some kind of magi/c/k or has it some occult/ish significance? Should I worry, maybe disperse/throw/evapoorate my golden brew down the sink (of course only during a full moon). My magnificent brew - (of course filtered with Malita unbleached coffee filters} now kept in a 4 pint jar of chinese gurkin/cucumber origin - secreted in the unused microwave oven, papered over for a safe darkness - required to keep the silver active and uncontaminated by strong light. Oh wo... what is happening to my loverly golden siver elixar!! Someone help me - stop me from giving up - sinking into a silver intoxicated depression of agressive type mood swings. (see homeopathic listings for contra indications and possible side affects - these warnings do exist according to the PA Lindemann article) Oh hell! - will I ever recover after this unexpected ALchemical reaction. What might happen next time? Just think - there are people out there worried about their skin being stained blue grey - Yes! what a fashion statement they could flaunt/boast. And here I am with a mysteriously stained flower vase. A deposit of silver sintered stelthily onto my valuable silver vessel. Anyway, all you new silver list/er/enrs shouldn't take my rantings too seriously, just strive to reach and fabricate that golden silver elixar and graduate to that higher level of silver dependance - and be warned - you may stain that treasured heirloom vase - Yes that one that grandma held dearly. Any comments about the staining of the glass. The process as I understand it - is a sintering (like that?) by electrollosis - the silver molecules/particles from the electrodes into the water etc etc etc. One wouldn't think that it would graduate to the glass ! Regards and a healthy and happy New year, Douglas Haack, Sydney.au
