Are we certain that AgCO3 will be produced when making CS with baking soda? Baking soda is NaHCO3. Since silver is not very active chemically, it is quite possible that the NaH will bind much more strongly than the Ag to the CO3 and thus no reaction would take place at all. The final result if it did would be AgCO3 H2O and NaOH if this reaction took place. Since NaOH is a much stronger base than sodium bicarbonate (AKA sodium hydrogen carbonate and baking soda), I don't believe the reaction will go that way. I believe instead that mixing lye (NaOH) with silver Carbonate would instead produce sodium bicarbonate and silver metal.
Marshall Anyone know how to figure this? Marshall Nina Silver wrote: > JAMES: > > > > The baking soda per-se, if any, remains in the > > > > finished silver, will have insignificant effect on human physiology. > > > > Perhaps a chemist can tell us the reaction of the carbonate > > > > with the silver, if any. > > IVAN: > > > The solubility of silver carbonate is about 30ppm, and so a solution > > > containing Ag+ cations and CO3- anions will exist up to this level. > > > There will be no negative consequences with ingesting this other > > > than the release of CO2 gas when the AgCO3 meets the HCl in the > > > stomach, the reaction products most likely being AgCl + H2O and > > > CO2. So one might have just as well have made their brew using > > > NaCl. > > Nina: > The CS I used to make with salt was never germicidal enough for me. Plus, it > was hard to make (lots of flakes on the electrodes). > > I'm not a chemist; my contribution to this discussion involves an experiment > a friend of mind did. He made one batch of CS with salt and another batch > with baking soda. After the CS was brewed, he tested their germicidal > properties by putting each batch into a separate petri dish containing the > same microbes. > > The CS made with salt had almost no germicidal effect. The CS made with > baking soda did. > > Best, > Nina > > -- > 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]>
