Silver Sol

What does 10 parts per million (PPM) silver sol look like?

Getting a clear mental picture of 10 PPM silver sol is difficult, given the scale of the numbers involved.  To get an idea of what 10 PPM looks like for curiosity’s sake, let’s use a single pixel to serve as a ratio illustration tool.

In the following set of images, note the size of 1 pixel, 10 pixels, and blocks of pixels ranging in count from 100 to 100,000.  Finally, note the size of the final block, which has 1,000,000 pixels in it.

The difference in size from 1 to 1,000,000 is pretty substantial, wouldn’t you say?

Now, just for fun, try to pick out the 10 silver-colored pixels within the pool of surrounding 999,990 blue pixels in the lowest rectangle.

Visual Representation of 10 PPM

This last illustration is analogous to the chemical composition of silver sol.  While this rectangle contains 10 silver pixels within 999,990 blue pixels, silver sol contains 10 parts of elemental silver for every 999,990 parts of pure water.

Obviously, this is not what the inside of a container of silver sol looks like, but it does provide some insight into the designation “10 PPM.”