Honestly, I'd bet the silver would work whether or not it kept the 
initial (alleged) colloidal particle charge, Reid. Even drying the 
colloid probably dumps the silver back to the ground state. 

Maybe Frank Key can comment.

I hope you try it and find the filter still works. I bet you will.

> I love to explain but did go off on a tangent. The question is:  at
> the elevated temperature does the silver ion become unstable, thus
> being converted to the metal?  i.e.
> 
> Ag(+or-)  -----heat---->  Ag metal
> 
> My hope is that this would happen at about the same temperature where
> reduction would cause the nitrate to be burned off, 475 to 500C.  In
> this way we would end up with our beautiful, terra cotta purifiers and
> not the ones blackened by carbon. Reid

[Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian]
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