> Dear Serita, Plated with sterling?? > I have sets of new pure silver wires sitting around in an open envelope for > months, still bright and shiny! > I`ll put my specimen of sulphur next to my nugget and see what happens. > Marsha
> Marsha: Silver has a huge affinity for sulfur. If it doesn't turn brown > forming silver sulfide, it just means that the silver wire might have a > superficial oily coating to temporarily protect it, or that there is no > mechanism (temperature or humidity?) to carry a tiny amount of sulfur into > the air as vapor so it can react with silver. I wouldn't bet the farm that it > wouldn't react over time. Roger Dear Roger, Well, the nugget was melted down, so if it had any coating, it should now be gone. I`ll try the sulphur experiment... I hope there wasn`t anything on the wires, that is what I`m selling to folks to make their CS with! Marsha PS, QVC was selling some jewelry of higher-than-sterling silver, and they claimed it wouldn`t tarnish. Hmmm. -- 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]>
