01-29-2003, 03:48 PM
Hi all,
From reading the chemical analysis of mothballs (paradichlorobenzine) and trying to remember past chemistry classes, I recall that chlorine and silver shoud not be put in close contact.
Just look at any sort of silver jewelry when you get out of the swimming pool: black (with varying shade, of course, depending on the chlorine concentration and on the time you were in the water).
So, a good recipe for disaster would definitely be silver orders and medals + mothballs in confined spaces = big black mess (that, of course, is my free interpretation of what a chemical equation looks like
).
Marc
From reading the chemical analysis of mothballs (paradichlorobenzine) and trying to remember past chemistry classes, I recall that chlorine and silver shoud not be put in close contact.
Just look at any sort of silver jewelry when you get out of the swimming pool: black (with varying shade, of course, depending on the chlorine concentration and on the time you were in the water).
So, a good recipe for disaster would definitely be silver orders and medals + mothballs in confined spaces = big black mess (that, of course, is my free interpretation of what a chemical equation looks like
).Marc
