Ag2O stability

Mike Ware's argyrotytpe process uses either silver oxide + sulfamic acid (a
tile grout cleaner) or Ag2NO3 + lye to make Ag2O. I think you dissolve the
silver oxide crystals hot (50-60 C) water and are warned it is rather
effervescent, so there is a way to get the silver oxide off something, but I
guess it defeats the purpose of removing from a solution to put it back into
another.

I think despite this claim to stability it's still considered an aggressive
compound in it's pure form (I forget if it's classified as an oxidizer or
just 'corrosive').

G. Smyth would know better than me...I'm just spewing stuff I read
elsewhere....I"m kind of spooked by most of the chemicals, but I have this
crude rule of thumb that if it's inorganic chemistry it's less evil than
organic chemistry as far as health goes (does not apply to organic fools
oops I mean foods :O)

Murray
Received on Sun Feb 3 22:20:15 2002