Everybody, I've been meaning to mention that I had a set of tests run, eight silver chloride, ceramic purifiers, for the presence of silver in the filtered water. Checking on solubility, the coef. for silver chloride is 0.000089 (I think), and with some calculation it appeared possible that just under 1.0 ppm of AgCl is in solution in 100 ml. of water. But for the tests, only two of the eight candles indicated silver in the filtrate, and those just barely detectable. If I recall correctly the lowest detectable silver is 0.01 mgs. and what we showed for the two candles out of eight was 0.02. We should test again over time, liter by liter.
I begin to understand that solubility concerns a maximum amount of a substance that can be present in solution, very much the fledgling here. So I have a couple of questions: How would the solubility work? Considering the AgCl is probably in individual molecules or small groups of molecules, do these individually disolve within the on coming water? And wouldn't it be that there are two or more solutions? One is in the container of filtered water and the other one(s) are inside the ceramic? In my curiosity (and ignorance?) I imagine that we could measure the amount of AgCl within an individual pore of the ceramic, and this should relate to disolved AgCl within the filtrate. But how is it the filtered water could contain about 1.0 ppm of AgCl, while the tests indicate this is at undetectable levels? Am I making a short matter long? 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]>
