All that is white is not silver. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Rebaudo" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:08 PM Subject: CS>silver is reactive meta
> Marshall: > > It was solid silver. > I observed It, from the time it was half gone until it was completely gone and always retained an opaque silver color > > Peter R > ---------------------------- > > My guess is that it was a 14K silver plated copper chain, and the copper reacted with the acid. There is no acid that will attack pure silver metal > at room temperature alone. If there was then cleaning stains left by evaporated CS would be easy. > > Marshall > > Peter Rebaudo wrote: > > > > Marshall Wrote > > > > silver is one of the most inert metals there is, it is slightly more reactive than gold, but > > not much. You can drop it into fuming nitric, sulfuric and hydrochloric acids > > (independently) and nothing happens. > > > > Marshal: > > > > As a child once I try to clean a silver chain in an Ounce of the acid tinners use to solder. The chain completely dissolved after a few minutes. > > > > What kind of acid do You think it was? > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
