Sincere apologies for stretching this out Marshall but just as an example:
One result...Total Ag (acidified HNO3)=23.5mg/l (clear solution)
12.0mg/l was soluble (filtered thru 0.45 micron paper), now ignore the filter
part cos that doesn't mean a great deal to me, in fact it means nothing to me
due to agglomeration of silver during filtering process, so I'd like to work on
the soluble part.
AAS was incorporated somewhere in this sample testing also.
That 12.0mg/l soluble part would obviously contain ions and particles, and
some, probly most...? would be well within the smallest size which is deemed a
*must have size*, however, the larger ones, the ones that STILL passed thru
that filter, would have to still be bio-available. I am not so much concerned
with that larger particle component as the other silver content will still be
in abundance and still be somewhat efficacious. Literature I have read states
"for a substance to be classified as a 'colloid' that substance should be no
larger than 1000nm or 1 micron in size". Now couple that with the fact that I
believe ALL the silver content falls WELL below that limit, and my visual
observation of NIL settlement, you can see where I get my idea from, flawed as
that may be praps, so if you can expand on all I have noted here it could be of
some assistance to me.
If a suitable explanation requires considerable chemistry details and equations
then don't worry about it cos it would go straight over my head, I'm just
basically wanting to know if it's possible for you to give me a SIMPLE reason
for why my clear solution came back with such a close balance of ions to
particles, and why that result seems to be at odds with some. Praps it's been
said before at some time but if it's in chemistry language it probly went in
one ear and straight out the other.
I'll let you decide if a reply is worthy of the time and/or effort.
N.
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