Absolutely, that is why NaOH conducts electricity so well, the disassociation. But the fact is that it is called sodium hydroxide solution (IE. Aldrich chemical #41,541-3 50% sodium hydroxide solution). I see no difference between that and silver hydroxide, except that silver hydroxide is unstable in the solid form, converting to silver oxide.
This originated because I was comparing silver ions in water to silver compounds, and was challenged that silver ions are not the same as silver compounds. I see no difference between dissolving silver hydroxide (a compound) in water giving Ag+ and OH- and in using electrolysis to produce silver ions and OH ions, which in water is exactly the same thing as if I dissolved silver hydroxide in the water, ignoring the stability of solid silver hydroxide issue. Marshall [email protected] wrote: > 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: [email protected] >> 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
