Ken,
Please read more of the archives, before publishing such long winded
analysis! All of this has been hashed over and clarified.
Your heart is in the right place but you start off with misconceptions as
the basis for your analysis. We all make semantic errors but don't build
such a broad thesis without some solid facts. The silver ion is missing
an electron and gains one at the negative pole to revert back to elemental
silver, an atom or crystal! As Ivan showed, there is minimal production
of oxygen and thus it is not a consideration. Most of your paragraphs have
similar errors!
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Ken said:
To my limited understanding, a silver ion is elemental metallic silver with
an added electron giving it a positive charge. It normally has a valency of
+1 therefore will tend to compound with other elements with a negative
valence such as oxygen [O, -2].
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