[pure-silver] Re: Sodium bisulfite
- From: "John Black" <jblack@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:50:37 -0500
>
> > During warm weather it will form a bacterial slime if kept too long.
>
> That's another unlikely thing you said. Sulfites are a bacteriostat
> and I've never seen bacterial slime by reusing the solution.
I haven't either but it is theoretically possible as Na Sulfate is a
substrate sulfur fixing bacteria will find attractive and I think sulfites
oxidize to sulfates don't they?
You're quite right, fresh sulfites are presevatives against spoilage
sometimes used in the food industry.
JB
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