In a message dated 8/24/2001 12:59:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
> Subj:Re: CS>AG+ and AG0 > Date:8/24/2001 12:59:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: [email protected] (Marshall Dudley) > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</A> > To: [email protected] (*Silver-List*) > > > > > Ivan Anderson wrote: > > > A compound is associated by a covalent or ionic bond, that is not the case > > here. > > Just why do the rules of chemistry change when we are talking about silver? > I > don't believe they do. If you have OH- and Na+ in water you have sodium > hydroxide in water, and there are ionic bonds between the OH and the Na. > If you > have Ag+ and OH- you have the same thing. > > Marshall > Marshall: If I could to jump in here for a minute... Sodium hydroxide in water is NOT the same as anhydrous sodium hydroxide. The associations between the cation, Na+ and the anion, OH- in solid sodium hydroxide are altered significantly when sodium hydroxide dissolves in water, just as the physical and chemical properties of water itself change when it contains a dissolved compound. Roger
