Hi, I'm totally new, have been studying this forum for the past couple weeks, in total planning stage - lots of amazing pertinent info here, loving it..
Please correct me if I'm wrong at any step of this logic process:
1) End product Colloidal Gold produced by any of Kephra's formulas (
https://www.cgcsforum.org/index.php?topic=757.0) is reported by many to have a short shelf life
2) Gold Chloride can be reduced into Colloidal Gold and itself has a long shelf life
3) The Electrolysis methods in Kephra's colloidal gold formulas initially create Gold Chloride in the cell, but the presence of the reduction agent in the cell immediately begins to reduce this into Colloidal metallic Gold
4) Therefore (this is my personal reasoning now), it would be possible to create stable Gold Chloride directly by using this same electrolysis method, but
without adding the reduction agentIs this reasonable? If so, any tips/suggestions? I am aware from Neofizz's comment here
https://www.cgcsforum.org/index.php?topic=4607.msg38705#msg38705 that Gold Chloride can also be produced by reacting gold with aqua regia, but am curious about directly producing it via electrolysis. (safer?)
Unless my reasoning is wrong, it seems to me the ability to safely produce and store Gold Chloride in advance would allow one to produce colloidal gold with less equipment, more on the fly, as situations require.
All input appreciated, im a total neophyte here.