Among other things. It is a mineral, an element, a metal, a solid, a conductor and so forth. A mineral is anything that is mined, as opposed to grown. I think even water is considered a mineral, as well as gas and petroleum oil.
Marshall Ron Patton wrote: > 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]> > >
