In a message dated 3/23/01 3:54:14 PM EST, [email protected] writes: << Subj: Re: CS-silver in olden times Date: 3/23/01 3:54:14 PM EST From: [email protected] (Marshall Dudley) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] It's not that low. In cold water it is .2 ppm and in warm water higher. (CRC Handbook specified as .00002 grams per 100 cc). Thus a gallon of cold milk could dissolve about .8 mg of silver if the sulfur is available. A family that goes through 3 gallons of milk a week could would dissolve about 2.5 mg of silver sulfide a week, and a 1 oz silver coin would lose 10% of its thickness in about 1000 weeks or 20 years. Thus coins that are done this way for a generation or two could become noticably thinner. The effect would be higher in a rain barrel since there is more water and it is warmer. Marshall >>
Marshall: Something isn't right. I just looked up the Solubility Product of silver sulfide. It's 6 * 10 ^-51. I noticed that AgSO3 is 1.5*10^-14 and AgSO4 is 1.4 * 10^-5, but as I said earlier, I don't believe these compounds will form at the expense of silver sulfide. Why not check the silver sulfide Solubility Product with your own references. Roger -- 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]>
