Jason.
To put it simply, there's 214 ppm of silver in this 750 ml jar of
crystal clear solution but it has absolutely no TE. Where's it gone?
Seems to me its gotta be totally ionic or the particles are too small to
'see' (checked with 3 lasers), and that would make the particles even
smaller than Mesosilver).
By the way the Faraday calc is this ... It ran for a total of 40 hours
at a constant 1mA. In 750 ml this adds 5.37 ppm per hour. Total is 214.8
ppm. (Faraday's law is supposed to be absolutely reliable).
And another interesting point. A batch of this has been sitting on the
window ledge in bright sun for 2 days and its still totally colorless.
I think the key is the very low current. If I tried this with a '3
nines' or some other uncontrolled power source it would be white and
cloudy almost instantly.
David
Subject:
Re: CS>Jasons comments (and high ppm silver).
From:
Jason <[email protected]>
Date:
18/02/2015 11:54 AM
To:
[email protected]
Jason wrote.
As far as the case of the missing 100 uS silver, that's interesting. You
may have to use another method for determining the total PPM in solution
to see if the silver is actually there; TEM would work ok... you can
also compare the Faraday equation results to determine if any of the
silver is plating out.
As far as colloidal particles too small for visibility using a laser,
I'd be interested in thinking about that. I'm not sure there are
colloidal particles small enough to not scatter laser light, at least,
not in the "normal state" sense. If you get into the shadow realm of
ORMES who knows.
A Malvern Nano Zetasizer would no doubt pick up on those particles if
they do exist.
~Jason
