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AC and DC Electrolysis
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could you explain me difference between AC and DC electrolysis of silver electrodes in pure water ? i would like to obtain nanoparticles od silver in
water, but DC electrolysis create only silver ionts.It is possible to use AC current ( polarity of the electrodes will be switched ).
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AC electrolysis is bullshit, if the polarity of the anode and cathode continually switch that means the accompanying (sp?) reactions also keep
switching. Which basically means nothing will be formed because usually the products will react with eachother when the polarity swtiches.
If you want to make a colloidal silver solution you might want to try electrolysis of a AgNO3 solution with 20-30V DC. (or so wikipedia claims...)
If you're interested in a cool experiment try this:
Make a concentrated AgNO3 soln. and a concentrated glucose soln. Add the latter to the former and leave to stand for a while. The glass of the
container will be coated with a mirror-like layer of silver. If you pour the mix on a piece of flat glass you can make an actual mirror this way.
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AC electrolysis is not often useful, but it's hardly "bullshit". If I wanted to disolve some relatively unreactive metal in acid I might well get 2
lumps of the metal and put them in the acid with an AC voltage between them.
When the metal is positive it is atacked electrolytically. When its negative it acts as an electrode and hydrogen is evolved. The same happens at the
other electrode.
The attack when it's positive is faster than it would otherwise be and the reverse reaction doesn't occur because it's easier to produce hydrogen.
The AC voltage has the advantage of not needing a rectifier.
A coloidal suspension isn't strictly a solution. It's possible to produce one by making an arc under water- I've not heard about it being done
electrolytically.
I've never tried the experiment you sugest- I have always tried it in the presence of ammonia or (if I'm at work and doing it properly) with tertiary
butylamine. I'm not sure it works very well in neutral solution
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Nerro, that reaction you described is pretty cool. I've seen a flask with it done to it, but have not done it myself because of the price of silver
nitrate and the lack of silver metal at my house.
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Yes... Now that I think of it I made a mistake.
Its not AgNO<sub>3</sub> you need to use but Ag(NH<sub>3</sub> <sub>2</sub><sup>+</sup>(aq). So you could dissolve Ag<sub>2</sub>O in ammonia. Im not sure about
AgNO<sub>3</sub> That might work also...
[Edited on Thu/Apr/2006 by Nerro]
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"If you want to make a colloidal silver solution you might want to try electrolysis of a AgNO3 solution with 20-30V DC. (or so wikipedia claims...)"
I would not make this using AgNO3 if you intend to use it for colloidal silver for health reasons. Just .999 fine silver wires are used with distilled
water for this. Some people add sea salts or other ionizing non poisonous salts but certainly using AgNO3 would make a toxic soup.
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My grandfather did allot of work with producing colloidal silver and although I do not have all the details on what he did I do know that you need
high voltage, not amperage. It’s not a standard electrolysis in that you don’t want ions of silver you want ultra fine silver particles suspended
in solution. He used a 10,000 volt neon sign transformer to produce an arc in a rapidly stirred water bath from a silver plate. This turned the silver
into ultra fine particles for the colloid. I could possibly e-mail him to get his notes on the experiment.
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Interesting NERV, privide us some more details.
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IrC> Just .999 fine silver wires are used with distilled water for this
yes but this will create ionic silver which react in stomach with HCL and create dangerous AgCl i think...not very health
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Milosko that's a method of making colloidal silver. Ions arent present, jsut very finely dispersed Ag particals. And why exactly is AgCl dangerous?
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Ya, whats so dangerous about AgCl? AgCl is only harmful if someone is silly enough to swallow it (may cause argyria if ingested in large amounts).
Well, it may be an eye, skin and respiratory irritant but it is not dangerous unless one is breathing in AgCl vapour, or dusts. Shortly put, AgCl is
not known to be a dangerous compound, iirc.
Alles sollte so einfach wie möglich gemacht werden aber nicht einfacher.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by praseodym
Ya, whats so dangerous about AgCl? AgCl is only harmful if someone is silly enough to swallow it (may cause argyria if ingested in large amounts).
Well, it may be an eye, skin and respiratory irritant but it is not dangerous unless one is breathing in AgCl vapour, or dusts. Shortly put, AgCl is
not known to be a dangerous compound, iirc. |
If you make or buy ionic silver ( some people sell them as colloidal silver ) it react with HCL in stomach.But AgCl have no antibiotic effect, so you
must use only colloidal silver ( nanoparticles, not ions ). Also AgCl stay longer time in our body than colloidal silver ( it could cause Argyria
).Silver chloride is "only" 30 times less toxic than Silver nitrate ( very toxic ).
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Ya, i know, but that is only if AgCl is consumed, which should not happen unless it is a hungry chemist who has not eaten for days doing an experiment
with AgCl  When i talked about AgCl being not dangerous, i am referring to its
stability, reactivity, volatility and explosiveness. Yes, i acknowledge the fact of the toxicity of AgCl and have even heard of silver ions poisoning
but like i have said, it only matters when it enters our body.
[Edited on 13-4-2006 by praseodym]
Alles sollte so einfach wie möglich gemacht werden aber nicht einfacher.
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I am trying to speed up reaction time for dissolving silver in nitric acid to make silver nitrate, so I thought that preparing colloidal silver and
then adding nitric would be useful (greatly enhanced surface area = faster kinetics). I had also considered merely heating the reaction but I seem to
recall reading that that tends to result in the evolution of NOx gases, something I would prefer to avoid.
I started reading about the preparation of colloidal silver and there was mention of the development of a yellow color in the water reportedly due to
the scattering effect of the silver particles in suspension (makes sense logically, shorter wavelengths are scattered more easily, thus the suspension
scatters the shorter wavelenghts but yellow makes it through).
I have observed the development of intense yellow color when dissolving silver in 70% nitric acid, maybe the acid is etching away nanoparticles of
silver from the surface and they get suspended in the solution until they are fully dissolved by the acid, yes?
Addition of a few ml of 27% H2O2 makes the solution colorless again. (H2O2 initially used in attempting to speed up the reation)
So now I have a new idea, what if the electrolysis methods of preparing colloidal silver were used in conjunction with dissolving in nitric acid. Use
silver for both electrodes, may have to dilute the concentrated acid slightly to make it a better electrolyte, would AC or DC be more effective?
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NO2 gas in small amounts looks yellow.
Net H2O2 + 2NO2 = 2HNO3, more or less.
AFAIK, colloidial silver methods require a low electrolyte level. You'll just be electroplating it into, and out of, solution.
AC on two electrodes might work... *shrug* I've heard it works on platinum in HCl.
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The intense yellow color in concentrated HNO3 is not due to colloidal silver, but due to dissolved NO2. At somewhat lower concentration, it also may
look green, due to a mix of dissolved NO2 (brown) and dissolved N2O3 (blue).
Adding H2O2 simply oxidizes it to HNO3, as Tim pointed out. Hence the colorless solution after adding H2O2.
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I do not see how drinking colloidal silver made with pure Ag wires in water is dangerous when mixing with HCl in the stomach. I should be dead now. I
used to get colds and flus multiple times every year. I would even get the same one running around 2 or 3 times every so often, so weak has my immune
system been all of my life. A few years ago I learned about CS and after researching all I could find online I built a generator with two .999 fine Ag
wires running on 27 volts. My first batch (quart bottle) I made by running the juice for a little over one hour. At this time a severe flu was running
around that they were warning about as it had killed several older people. One friend I knew who had it missed over a week of work he was so sick and
having known him 20 years I can say he had strong and perfect health, above average. This flu kicked his ass. He said it took almost 3 weeks for him
to be rid of all the symptoms he had been so ill. Mind you this information I learned a month or so later when I saw him after the day I built my
first generator. Anyway, I was in K Mart buying a platsic bottle to go home and build the generator. Standing in line I was already ill with this flu,
running a fever and soaking in sweat. After I made the first batch I drank about half of it and went to bed. The next morning I felt way better and by
that afternoon I did not feel any symptoms at all. This had not been my first 50 years of experience with flu whether or not I had a flu shot that
year, there were always symptoms getting over them for days, every time. Meaning every flu I have ever had has always left me feeling like shit for
days after I got over the worst part, but not so this time. As to how I had felt the day before, I knew damn well this was a very bad flu I was coming
down with. Next day, no symptoms at all. Very unlike any previous experiences in life. Years later to this day, I have never had more that the first
signs of a cold or flu coming on, as each time I make a batch and dring half of it, usually 8 to 12 Oz. and the next day all signs of illness are
gone. I have not had a single cold or flu in almost 10 years now!
Believe it or not, I am merely relaying my personal real world experiences here. I will say after much study mostly what is made in the solution is an
oxide of silver. In any case I never take it all the time like many people do and I do not drink the very large amounts I have read about so many
people doing.
I will say as much as they drink (some a gallon a month or more, they drink it every day) although I only would do so with much less and only when I
thought a cold or flu was coming on or is going around, and none of them have ever been poisoned or even made slightly sick from drinking CS in the
way I described making it. Not one report of poisoning is in existence for anyone to read as far as I can find.
Being a science minded person I always have reservations about being too cavalier with what I make and put in my body. I have never felt any stomach
discomfort drinking colloidal silver, nor had any symptoms in any shape or form, ever. So as to how much AgCl is being made in my stomach either
little to none or AgCl is in no way a poison. Choosing to believe what MSDS's say, I assume AgCl IS a poison. Therefore there can be little or no AgCl
being created in the stomach from drinking the solution.
The problem comes from mixing CS with certain other substances. For example any acidic fruit or juice. Worse still, nicotine from puffing a cigar
after drinking some CS. If taste is an indicator of danger I would say CS and nicotine team up to make something very bad to the health. CS also
instantly reacts with vitamin C making some or other kind of hazardous waste. So the cure here is to drink only some pure water after CS to wash it
down, and not putting any further hazardous waste into my system for a half hour or so.
To sum it up, so sorry, as a scientist I can say the data shows no significant amount of any poison produced from any stomach acid disaster. My data
to back up this point is in these letters I am typing right now.
Bottom line is: I type, therefore I am not dead!
I might add however, I am sure making it from any compound of silver such as the nitrate and drinking it would soon kill you!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by agent_entropy
I am trying to speed up reaction time for dissolving silver in nitric acid to make silver nitrate, so I thought that preparing colloidal silver and
then adding nitric would be useful (greatly enhanced surface area = faster kinetics). I had also considered merely heating the reaction but I seem to
recall reading that that tends to result in the evolution of NOx gases, something I would prefer to avoid. |
The rate of formation of colloidal silver is so low that it is likely not significant compared to the rate of dissolution of silver in concentrated
nitric acid. Normal methods create a few hundred parts per million of 'colloidal' silver in a few minutes, home units only produce no more than a
couple of parts per million per minute. Nitric acid is going to produce many percent of AgNO3 in the same time. Drop one of the silver wires used in
colloidal production into nitric acid and see how long it lasts. (this doesn't apply to the arc method, which has a higher rate of production)
If the normal electrolytic method of making colloidal silver could create much dispersed silver, all those people drinking it would be turning
slate-grey.
Heating cause visible release of NOx because the nitrogen oxides are being produced at a faster rate; when cool or cold the lower rate allows both the
diffusion into air of the NOx (low rate - not as noticeable) and the reforming of nitric acid from NOx, O2, and water at the surface of the acid.
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Thanks everyone. Very helpful. I didn't realize that nitrogen oxides could also be yellow in solution. I even understand exactly how the H2O2 helps
now too. I also hadn't realized that the concentration of colloidal silver was so low.
Oh well, I'll just keep beating the silver into thin sheets and cutting those into little flakes (silver is from a 1 troy ounce bar, not little wires
with plenty of surface area already...grrr...).
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| Quote: | Originally posted by agent_entropy...
Oh well, I'll just keep beating the silver into thin sheets and cutting those into little flakes (silver is from a 1 troy ounce bar, not little wires
with plenty of surface area already...grrr...). |
The old, traditional way for home experimenters to make silver nitrate started with dissolving a silver coin in nitric acid. The coin would dissolve
in a few minutes, no more than a quarter hour; the coin was used just as it came out of a pocket except possibly for washing it to remove grease.
Which is to say, there's no need for all that labour. If you're having that much problem dissolving bulk silver, it sounds as if your acid is too
weak.
For metals that you can melt, forming them into shot or mossy form is one way to increase the surface area. Pour the molten metal from a height, in a
thin stream, into a deep, high walled container of water. It will spit hot water, wear goggles, gloves, and so on.
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I believe the key to making the so called nano particles is
to keep the current density very low The yellowish/golden color appears at around 12PPM.
Would need to check my notes but for two 45mm dia 5 nines silver coins spaced 12mm apart the constant current is held to 5.9mA. . At start up using
double distilled RA water(<1PPM TDS) the current is about 0.25mA and climbs slowly to the 5.9mA constant current limit. 25.2 minutes is calculated
for 1L but in practice takes about twice this long.
The process can be speeded up by using 25% or so of the 20PPM from the previous batch. Voltage varies from about
36V to 14-17V at the 20PPM cutof. A simple ACvoltage divider
using two LM317s as AC voltage regulator is used to test PPM.
Using the terminal voltage alone will reliably tell the PPM in
a calibrated system.
I can elaborate more if anyone is interested I started making it a couple years ago for my elderly neighbor who claims the
silver solution cured his skin cancer (red sores on the extremities.
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AC is actualy beneficial in quite a few industrial applications of electrolysis (although not on 50/50 duty cycle that I`m aware of).
a 90/10 duty cycle often know as PCR (Periodic Current Reversal) is used in electroplating.
it`s also how you can manage to re-charge a regular Zinc/Carbon cell or even the Alkaline cells.
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"I can elaborate more if anyone is interested"
Please do so, I find this most interesting. I would like a schematic and method of calibration if you can, this is something I have wanted for a long
time. I believe your neighbor. The space station, space shuttle, and all Japanese public transportation (at least those with water available on board)
filter their water through fine filters made of silver, so while the FDA does not approve many believe in CS. As to the FDA, we all know CS cannot be
patented, cannot be trademarked by a company, so of course their money grubbing cronies disallow CS. Not surprising, they burned the books of R. Royal
also. In short the FDA cannot get kick backs for CS so they must prove it does not work, to keep the population spending the big bucks for swill which
kills thousands with side effects in the name of profit.
I have looked at methods using lasers to establish PPM, but nothing I have seen looks viable for the home experimentor and no easy way of calibration
is around as far as I know.
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There's a couple of problems with the CS work. One is that it covers effects that appear to span those of bulk silver, nanoparticles, and ions; down
in the nano range things change from more or less bulk to single atom and ion. The second problem is that in vitro effects are being lumped in with
external and internal in vivo effects.
Hydrofluoric acid, iodine, garlic juice, and conventional antibiotics all kill bateria in vitro. Few people would attempt to use hydrofluoric acid
externally or internally for its antibacterial properties, those who do so will only try once. Iodine and garlic juice kill bateria on the body's
surface without too much harm to the user. However neither used internally really does the job wanted, to get concentrations high enough to kill the
bateria generally means getting concentrations high enough to kill the host's cells. Antibiotics take advantage of differences in the
biology/biochemistry of the bacteria and host, being more toxic to one than the other or by affecting a pathway lacking in the host.
Bulk silver does show bacterialcidal and bacteriostatic effects. It is used as a water puriifier, but so are ozone and chlorine gas. It is a long leap
from those bulk effects to an internal medicine to take on bacteria. Silver compounds have long been used on the skin for killing bacteria, as has
iodine. Again, a big difference between that and internal use.
In both cases there is a difference in the relative amount of silver or silver salts, from the baterias point of view. Again, those are external
applications where at the most peoples' skin is exposed to the agent.
Claims for internal effectivity haven't addressed how clusters of silver atoms get into the bloodstream from the GI tract. Relative toxicities aren't
relly described.
Indeen, the claimed focused toxicity is a problem; 'bad' bacteria are affected much more than 'good' bacteria or host cells, cancer cells more than
non-cancerous, and viruses are targeted too. While there are possible mechanisms for more or less such effects, when I read something like "viruses
are destroyed as a result of the silver positive ion causing the viruses internal protoplast to collapse" I have some problems accepting the
explanation, especially when elsewhere it is claimed that the effects of CS are not from ions.
Better research, less magic bullet claims, and better explanations of mechanisms would likely help in the acceptance of CS. Note that CS could be
patented, not the general concept but specific preparations and methods of making them, a number of medicinal agents claim and in some case seem to be
more effective than just any old form of compound X; there would be money to be made if CS worked the way it is claimed to.
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I read a while back that a special (and pretty pricy) type of socks has been developed in the USA what has Ag wire in them which keep bacteria from
multiplying so as to prevent smelly feet and some skin disorders.
Might it be possible to make colloidal silver adhere to socks strongly enough for the socks to have a similar working? I imagine you don't need an
especially large amount of Ag for that.
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