Marshall, Allow me to correct' , you state"....as an ion can be Ag2O..."
Ag2O is a molecule not an ion. The missiing two electrons in the silver are
supplied by the negatively charged Oxygen singlet and the combination is
thus stable and electronically balanced.
Regards
Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marshall Dudley" <mdud...@king-cart.com>
To: <silver-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: CS>ionic-colloidal
Terry Chamberlin wrote:
Frank Key said:
>Regarding Terry Chamberlin's comments on ions:
To put all the definitions into practical perspective
requires only that one understand the following
sentence.
>The difference between silver ions and silver
particles boils down to the fact that silver ions
combine with chloride ions to form silver chloride and
silver particles do not.<
All that you are saying is that charged silver
particles smaller than a certain size (what you are
designating *ionic*) interact with chloride in a
certain way, and charged or non-charged particles
bigger than a certain size (what you are calling
*colloidal*) do not.
It does almost appear that way, except a two atom ion/particle does seems
to exist. As an ion it can be silver oxide Ag2O, and as a particle it can
be Ag2. They are both 2 atoms, but the particle one will not react with
AgCl, but the ionic one will. Just what the difference is in these two is
difficult to say, except one is reactive and the other is not.
Marshall
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