cnidocyte - 8-7-2010 at 09:54
Silvers pretty far down in the activity series so would I be right in assuming I could dissolve a wide range of metals with silver ions? Silver ions
are easy to produce, I just run some current through a glass of distilled water with silver electrodes. To verify that there are silver cations
present I just add a bit of NaCl and look for AgCl precipitate. I'd opt for gold but silver is dirt cheap in comparison.
bbartlog - 8-7-2010 at 10:45
Maybe you could silver plate things this way, but I think the surface of the metal you'd be trying to dissolve would quickly become passivated by the
layer of silver.
cnidocyte - 9-7-2010 at 10:05
Good point. Silver electroplating would be fairly cool. Elemental silver has antibiotic properties so electroplating forks and knives wouldn't be a
bad idea.
[Edited on 9-7-2010 by cnidocyte]