Terry, You did not address the question. I'm sure no one meant a 'used' coffee filter!
Only certain silver salts and halogens will turn dark in light. If elements did not spontaneously combine and form compounds, then life and the universe would not exist (and not = 42). The fact is that silver ions are recognised as a medium strength oxidiser, and so is able to have the spontaneous reactions which cause it to be effective. Silver ions will coat copper and aluminium with metallic silver, releasing the respective metal into solution as ions. VitC in your fruit juice will reduce silver ions to metal. God knows what sort of reactions take place in coffee. Aggregation or flocculation will occur between like charged particles, van der Waals force driving the attraction. Any colloid is an equilibrium (or not) between attractive and dispersive forces. Ivan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Wayne" <[email protected]> > I disagree > with the following statement: > > >"I have Brew Rite brand coffee filters (made by > >Rocklite Inc.) and one filter will add 35PPM of crud > >to an ounce of pure water! If used with perfect Cs it > >makes 5PPM change to 20+PPM and it TURNS DARK IN THE > >SUNLIGHT in 15 minutes, indicating the formation of > >silver salts! The point is that if you start with > 5PPM >and add 5+PPM of crud (binders, clay, etc. in > the >paper) you windup with silver salts.." > > If I pour CS into a cup of coffee (or coffee into a > cup of CS), it hasn't turned into a "salt", even > though it has turned dark. A "salt" isn't formed by > mixing two minerals (CS and something else) together. > A "salt" is created when the molecules of more than > one mineral or substance are joined into a > hybrid-substance, an "alloy", a compound. > Silver/nitrate isn't formed by stirring the two > substances together. A "salt" is made when electrical > power forces the two substances to join together in > more than a casual way, such as you will find when > they are simply stirred together. If it turns dark in > the sun, it seems to me this means the silver > particles are aggregating to each other or to other > substances in the CS, but this is still not the same > as a salt. Aggregating, or clumping together, is a > similar mechanism as when two magnets "clump" together > because of attraction between them. They haven't > become an "alloy" or a "salt", they are simply > attracted to each other. Aggregation (as I understand > it) is two or more particles becoming attracted to > each other because one of the particles has lost or > changed its charge; but they are not joined together > in the same way that the particles were joined when > they were part of the silver rod. > Comments? > Terry Wayne -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
