Looking at the electronegativity: Oxygen is 3.5 Hydrogen is 2.1 Copper is 1.9
So, cannot the copper take the oxygen away from the hydrogen in the water and liberate it under acid conditions? Marshall [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 11/2/2001 10:49:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > >> Subj:Re: CS>On the Corrosion of Copper in DW >> Date:11/2/2001 10:49:27 AM Eastern Standard Time >> From:[email protected] >> Reply-to:[email protected] >> To:[email protected] >> Sent from the Internet >> >> >> >> The solubility of copper goes way up as ph goes down. See >> http://www.nsf.org/newsletters/plumbing99-1/coppercert.html >> >> Although copper is slightly soluble in pure wter, I think much of >> the >> problem with distilled water may be that it can quickly absorb >> enough >> CO2 to drop the ph into the region where copper is quite soluble. >> >> Marshall > > Marshall: I still need to know what's going to oxidize copper (even > slightly) to form Cu++ when only CO2 is present in DW. 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]>
