Re: OT: Safe Mini Muffin Baking Pan - Dissolved Silicon

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Hi Francine.

I do not know anything about baking pans.

But, I have done a lot of post-grad work in chemistry with silicon in

water.

Silicon forms a " silicate " state in water when it is successfully

dissolved.

Silicates are small molecules where, in general, one Si atom is attached

to 4 Oxygen atoms.

In pH-regulated water, that means a Si atom with 4 OH- ions or water

(H2O) molecules attached.

Now, depending upon the pH, those H atoms on the OH or water groups may

come on or off.

Also, depending on the pH and the *concentration of the dissolved

Silicon*, the SiO4 groups can condense together to form polymers.

Now, also in water, Aluminium forms aqueous complexes with either 4 or 6

Oxygen atoms (ie. H2O or OH- rgoups).

These are called Aluminates.

When they are together, the silicates and aluminates join together, to

quite a significant extent, to cerate complex structures called

aluminosilicates.

There is a whole world of literature on aluminosilicates.

There are some very strong proposals about aluminosilicate structrues

being responsible for Alzheimer's.

I don't have an opinion on that.

Having said all of this, solid Silicon and solid Aluminium do not

dissolve readily in water unless the pH is raised or lowered very

significantly and the temperature is pushed right up. Silicon is a

non-metal, Aluminium is a metal.

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