Silver ions will probably stick to glass walls. Calibrating (standard)
solutions containing cations are most properly stored in plastic
containers for this reason.

Vitamin C introduction after 1-2
> minutes or more
> causes sol to turn yellow almost immediately. Question:
> Could this be
> bringing more ions into colloids faster, perhaps even more
> effectively,
> thereby having a more highly colloidal sol as opposed to a
> more ionic
> colloidal silver sol?

Yes that is most likely

Ivan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, 29 August 2002 3:54 p.m.
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CS>Newbie/Particle Size
>
>
> My fist batches of c/s were with a three-battery unit.
> Cloudy white (grey)
> colloids resulted, which stuck to and eventually
> silver-plated the glass
> (mirrored). If large grey particles stick, as do yellow
> particles- whose to
> say clear ions don't as well?
> I began the use of vitamine C as an electrolyte many months
> before I
> validated it in an old chemistry text as the electrolyt
> commonly used in
> early experimentation. Vitamin C introduction after 1-2
> minutes or more
> causes sol to turn yellow almost immediately. Question:
> Could this be
> bringing more ions into colloids faster, perhaps even more
> effectively,
> thereby having a more highly colloidal sol as opposed to a
> more ionic
> colloidal silver sol?
> Johnny Silverseed- author:
> "C/S ....@ntibiotic Superhero"
>


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