Marshall, Mike D. and Everybody, As to photo developer ideas, I'm starting to get excited about this, the possibility of silver nitrate, saturation of water purifier, then using some kind of developer. Thanks to you Marshall, and as you suggest I think I'll try to open up to the chemistry. But one question is: if I saturate with AgNO3, then dry, why do I need prior application of CS for plating? Wouldn't the drying be enough, situating the AgNO3 salt in the medium? Then I could put the developer through the dry purifier.
Mike, I do not know the maximum temperature for this plastic, except to say that it is not designated for heat. Occasionally I put these into a bread oven for drying, maybe getting about 80C. Or perhaps if used heat resistant plastic we could then go upto about 500oC, at which temperature the nitrates burn off. I'd have to check plastic specs. Otherwise I am quite truly not a genius, not someone, given strong hints, to whom ideas would then be self evident. i.e. I can be rather thick, more apt to stumble onto what works, given lots of attempts. But I guess I'm one of the only people (if not *the* only one) who's actively looking into silver alternatives. This may be because unlike others I have a universal, permeable medium in which to apply the silver. This is also a good reason why I intend being quite free with information on the alternatives. Reid -- 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]>
