Thank you. James-Osbourne: Holmes
-----Original Message----- From: Ivan Anderson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 4:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: CS>Sodium Hydroxide was buying cs instead of making it. Hi James and Marshall. The reason why sodium hydroxide is corrosive is that it can hold large amounts of OH- ions in solution. It is corrosive at pH14, but totally harmless at pH8, in fact it is good for you at pH8-9 and is no more than alkalised water. When one adds NaOH to water it more or less completely ionises, that is, it disassociates into its component ions Na+ and OH-, which then become free and dissolved. A solution of NaOH pH 7.4 has the same number of free OH- ions as blood, and could be safely injected into the blood stream. By your reasoning our blood contains sodium hydroxide. I have noticed this before, you guys seem to be intimidated by the name Lye, but it is nothing more than discrete sodium and hydroxyl ions swimming in water. You can do what ever you like to the Cl-, Ag+ or Na+, but if the OH- concentration stays the same the corrosiveness and pH of the solution is not altered. Regards Ivan. > -----Original Message----- > From: James Osbourne, Holmes [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 1 September 2002 6:48 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: CS>Sodium Hydroxide was buying cs instead of making it. > > > Also, some very small portion of the water is ionized under standard > conditions. > > James-Osbourne: Holmes > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marshall Dudley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 9:01 AM > To: *Silver-List* > Subject: Re: CS>Sodium Hydroxide was buying cs instead of making it. > > > Perhaps the OH is already there. Maybe when one makes the > CS, when an > oxygen atom is pulled out at the electrode during electrolysis, the > remaining OH sticks around to balance the silver ion. So > when salt is > added, there is a simple reshuffle, with the OH and the Cl > swapping partners > so to speak. That would give silver chloride and sodium > hydroxide, or lye. > > Marshall > > Ivan Anderson wrote: > > > Just to clear up a few things :) > > > > If one does not add extra OH- ions to the mix, then the > talk of sodium > > hydroxide (Na+ OH-) is redundant. > > > > The sodium ions take no part in the reaction (Ag+ + Cl- > => AgCl), and > > are called spectator ions. > > > > Sodium ions cannot ionise anything as they are already oxidised, > > sodium metal on the other hand reacts violently with water. > > > > Ivan. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
