CS>Cathodic Silver? From: Matthew McCann Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:39:26
> Hi, Mike, > Thanks for your thoughtful remarks. > True, silver is insoluble in DW. But that doesn't prevent silver > from dispering into the DW as a non-sedimenting particulate. A > good example of this Carey Lea silver, the very first form of > colloidal silver ever discovered. Dmitri Mendeleyev describes this > process on page 420 of his Principles Of Chemistry, Part IV. Carey Lea silver is not formed during electrolysis of silver in dw. > Also true is the fact that silver metal can carry current in > opposite directions. But that does not preclude silver > particulates from carrying negative static charge as easily as > positive static charge. This is due to the energy bands in > solid-state silver that do not exist in isolated atoms or ions of > silver. A suspended crystal of silver can gain an electron as > easily as lose an electron, even more easily than the suspended > oil-drop did in Millikan's famous oil-drop experiment. Millikan's experiment was done in air, not in water. > Matthew Your posts are hard to read due to the truncated lines. Can you find a way to make normal length lines? Mike Monett -- 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]>
