Jason,
Buddy, I wish I could help with the confusion, I know I felt it many times, especially in unfamiliar territory.
Much is spending enough time studying to learn the language and then spending time studying (many times the same materials but now with a better understanding) so that now you understand what was said in that language.
There is a very big hump or learning curve to overcome in the beginning, the good news is it gets easier to study and easier the more practice you get at studying and the more you can speak the language or even understand what is being said.
as children we need to hear and see the more we do the more we grow and the stronger we are at these skills.
stop, step back and relax you are a babe you have not even learned to crawl and here you are trying to run the marathon in a race, give yourself time read, enjoy, search, and find, soon before you know it you also will be talking the talk and walking the walk, no matter how hard the babe toys, or pushes himself, he only makes it harder to learn and confuses himself or where it begins harder to absorb and navigate or crawl through this new world, no matter how hard he struggles he is not ready for the marathon, but if babe just relaxes and sucks up the environment, exercises his efforts to his ability and what be happy of what he can crawl too he will soon be running a marathon, the babe who cannot and keeps struggling to run may never be able to walk or at least not well and if he does it may take him many more years to even learn to walk much less refine or run.
Take it easy the gold will not run away, it will be there when your ready, you will understand more and be able to do...
Look up colloids using butcher as an author, I have tried to explain them (maybe not as well as other sources, but that is the only one I can think of), it should at least clear some confusion.
Stannous chloride SnCl2 will not precipitate gold.
With SnCl2 the gold ions are reduced to metal atoms, but not to become a precipitate that settles out of solution as a metal brown or dirty black powder.
Sulfite, SMB, or some other reagents (chemicals) will form a gold precipitate, which is large heavy clumps of reduced gold atoms (gold ions changed from salt back to the metal atom, or a metal ion that got back its gold atoms )these reduced gold atoms joined together to make a small flake of powder, or a precipitate powder that falls to the bottom of the flask as an insoluble powder (precipitate).
clumps big enough to see, clumps that are heavy enough to settle as they can overcome gravity in the solution of salts and not have polarized charges that keep the gold atoms repelling each other like magnets pushing each other around charge to the atom that will, the stannous salt covert to a stannic salt tin salt SnCl4 which normally gives us headaches filtering and is a good place to lose gold (a story for another study altogether)
You will not see these tiny atoms of metallic gold as they repel each other and do not get in big enough clumps to be able to see (even with many of the special microscopes), or you cannot test for colloids in a solution as the tests require reducing the gold, they also will color a solution as the gold metal gold atoms swimming violently in the solution that will not settle the colloids (atoms of metal gold many many times smaller than the clumps of gold atoms that form from gold which forms the brown precipitate we can see with our naked eye reflected light coloring the solution violet or purple of Cassius.
Jason, it is difficult to explain these things and difficult to write books trying to especially if your no author or typist and...
It is difficult enough for a beginner to understand (look how may members we do this for thousands, and much is just repeated information so old hat it becomes very boring, as we tire we cannot explain as well in our tired state, and or leave out much information that may fill in the gaps.... as we could the first thousand times we wrote long posts trying to explain.
I do not think you're going to learn to run any faster by enrolling in a crash coarse but will at an easy steady pace in study
Trying to memorize or learn a whole book is daunting, trying to learn overnight what you could study for three lifetimes and not the understand the half of it, well ...
Taking a page at a time, a day at a time of leisure, and playing only where you know you can go or crawl safely, starting with a simple project to study with simple materials toys, experiencing the wonders around you soon my friend you will be running...
Buddy, I wish I could help with the confusion, I know I felt it many times, especially in unfamiliar territory.
Much is spending enough time studying to learn the language and then spending time studying (many times the same materials but now with a better understanding) so that now you understand what was said in that language.
There is a very big hump or learning curve to overcome in the beginning, the good news is it gets easier to study and easier the more practice you get at studying and the more you can speak the language or even understand what is being said.
as children we need to hear and see the more we do the more we grow and the stronger we are at these skills.
stop, step back and relax you are a babe you have not even learned to crawl and here you are trying to run the marathon in a race, give yourself time read, enjoy, search, and find, soon before you know it you also will be talking the talk and walking the walk, no matter how hard the babe toys, or pushes himself, he only makes it harder to learn and confuses himself or where it begins harder to absorb and navigate or crawl through this new world, no matter how hard he struggles he is not ready for the marathon, but if babe just relaxes and sucks up the environment, exercises his efforts to his ability and what be happy of what he can crawl too he will soon be running a marathon, the babe who cannot and keeps struggling to run may never be able to walk or at least not well and if he does it may take him many more years to even learn to walk much less refine or run.
Take it easy the gold will not run away, it will be there when your ready, you will understand more and be able to do...
Look up colloids using butcher as an author, I have tried to explain them (maybe not as well as other sources, but that is the only one I can think of), it should at least clear some confusion.
Stannous chloride SnCl2 will not precipitate gold.
With SnCl2 the gold ions are reduced to metal atoms, but not to become a precipitate that settles out of solution as a metal brown or dirty black powder.
Sulfite, SMB, or some other reagents (chemicals) will form a gold precipitate, which is large heavy clumps of reduced gold atoms (gold ions changed from salt back to the metal atom, or a metal ion that got back its gold atoms )these reduced gold atoms joined together to make a small flake of powder, or a precipitate powder that falls to the bottom of the flask as an insoluble powder (precipitate).
clumps big enough to see, clumps that are heavy enough to settle as they can overcome gravity in the solution of salts and not have polarized charges that keep the gold atoms repelling each other like magnets pushing each other around charge to the atom that will, the stannous salt covert to a stannic salt tin salt SnCl4 which normally gives us headaches filtering and is a good place to lose gold (a story for another study altogether)
You will not see these tiny atoms of metallic gold as they repel each other and do not get in big enough clumps to be able to see (even with many of the special microscopes), or you cannot test for colloids in a solution as the tests require reducing the gold, they also will color a solution as the gold metal gold atoms swimming violently in the solution that will not settle the colloids (atoms of metal gold many many times smaller than the clumps of gold atoms that form from gold which forms the brown precipitate we can see with our naked eye reflected light coloring the solution violet or purple of Cassius.
Jason, it is difficult to explain these things and difficult to write books trying to especially if your no author or typist and...
It is difficult enough for a beginner to understand (look how may members we do this for thousands, and much is just repeated information so old hat it becomes very boring, as we tire we cannot explain as well in our tired state, and or leave out much information that may fill in the gaps.... as we could the first thousand times we wrote long posts trying to explain.
I do not think you're going to learn to run any faster by enrolling in a crash coarse but will at an easy steady pace in study
Trying to memorize or learn a whole book is daunting, trying to learn overnight what you could study for three lifetimes and not the understand the half of it, well ...
Taking a page at a time, a day at a time of leisure, and playing only where you know you can go or crawl safely, starting with a simple project to study with simple materials toys, experiencing the wonders around you soon my friend you will be running...
