isn't silver a mineral? ( I've heard it stated as such on a number of sites) This could be a very dumb question.........
Ron, somewhere in Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 2:10 PM Subject: CS>Re:H2O2 test > At 12:52 PM 6/16/2000, you wrote: > >A single "dissolved" atom of Ag is still a metal. It does not stop being, > >by definition, a "metal" when it is a single atom in water. > > > >A clump of silver, regardless of size, or charge, is still not > >"dissolved". It is by definition, a colloid. > > > >James Osbourne Holmes > >[email protected] > > Not sure who you were addressing James, but I agree an atom = metal = element! > > The definition of a colloid seems to have many experts and thus answers, but > I think you went amiss with a piece of silver = colloid! I would request > Ivan to give > us his wisdom on the "prefered" definition but as I recall, it requires a > charge on > the particles and they must be bigger then atoms! The other constraints, I > believe, > were that a colloid can not be a solution, dispersion nor suspension. > > [email protected] > > > > > -- > 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]> >
