Sure, some wave lengths get absorbed and the rest reflects, gets in my eye and that's what I see, unless it emits it's own light...right? But OK, Would a larger crystal be configured in such a way so as to absorb different wavelengths and would there be a difference in that structure from that of a smaller crystal? Given that we have hydrogen, oxygen and silver involved, could the crystal structures include the hydrogen or oxygen in varying amounts as the silver ions agglomerate thus making for differing crystal structures [ surface shapes?] that would absorb different wavelengths and be related to size as well. Ken
At 01:43 PM 11/21/00 -0500, you wrote: >de Coyote wrote: > >> It seems like a differently configured crystal would reflect a different >> color of light. >> Any ideas? >> > >Don't confuse reflection with absorption. Reflection is the basis for tyndall, >and in that case the shorter wavelengths are always scattered more than the longer >wavelengths, independent of size (in the range we are interested in). Thus >tyndall is always a bluish color from white light, ie. skim milk, water, the clear >sky. > >Absorption wavelength of silver however is VERY dependent on the size of the >particle, moving from UV at the atomic level through blue, green, yellow, orange, >red and finally infrared, as particle size increases. The color you see is what >is left and thus the complement of the color absorbed, and moves from colorless, >to yellow, gold, orange, red, violet, blue, green to clear or grey. However since >there are normall a lot of different sized particles in the violet, blue and green >stuff, the result is usually a brown. > >Marshall > > >-- >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]> > >
