In a message dated 3/28/01 4:34:42 AM EST, [email protected] writes: << Subj: Re: CS>Silver Solubility Limit in Water Date: 3/28/01 4:34:42 AM EST From: [email protected] (Ivan Anderson) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 27 March 2001 03:05 Subject: CS>Silver Solubility Limit in Water > > Ivan: I seem to recall an MD friend of mine who was curious enough to boil a > pot of (0.999, I think) metallic silver in DW for "several hours," and then > sent it in for AA. I believe he got 1.2 PPM. By copy of this email, I'm > contacting him to verify this result. Roger Yes do, I read in an early text (maybe Svedberg) that both mercury and silver dissolve to some extent by boiling in water. Ivan >>
Ivan: Well, it looks like I was a little off in my recollection. He did, in fact, perform that experiment, but he didn't send it in for AA. Instead, he used a conductivity meter. So we're back to square one. However, I'm planning a series of tests with various sources of silver, each containing a different percentage of silver, from 15% through 99.99%. I'm hypothesizing that the impurities in the silver will allow it to corrode. However, since announcing my hypothesis, I have found out that, in general, the primary "impurity" is copper which is less noble than silver. Therefore, wouldn't copper be sacrificial to silver just as the zinc from galvanized steel is sacrificial to iron? Roger (who is a little less certain of the outcome of these tests) -- 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]>
