I make the distilled water myself and it has a 0 reading with my TDS meter. The tap water has a reading of over 300. The only thing might be, that I poured the distilled water into the jar which I make the CS in, without cleaning it out first as I thought this unnecessary. I wouldn't have thought there would be enough particles left to cause a Tyndall effect though...dee
Sent from my iPad > On 19 Oct 2014, at 00:54, Debra & David <alch...@kern.com.au> wrote: > > The answer is simple. Neither your tap water nor your distilled water is > pure. Mains filtration plants are very good at removing particles, hence you > will often see no laser line. On the other hand it probably still contains > plenty of dissolved salts (invisible to a laser) so if you used a meter in > the mains water you would get a significant reading. > > If your distilled water is displaying a laser line it contains fine > particles, so its either not distilled in the first place or its being > contaminated after distilling. Unless your glass jar is obviously unclean its > not likely to add significant particles to the water. > > David > > > > > From: Dee <d...@deetroy.org> > To: silver-list@eskimo.com > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 7:02 AM > Subject: CS>Conundrum > > I shone a laser through my distilled water and I got a distinct Tyndall > effect, just the same as I get through my finished CS. Can anyone explain > this? If I shine it through tap water there is nothing...dee > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On 19/10/2014 5:36 AM, silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com wrote: >
