Thank you for your reply Malcolm, I do leave the distilled water for days and sometimes weeks before making the CS as I don't make much, only the odd 500ml which lasts me a fair time. Sorry to be a pain...dee
Sent from my iPad > On 19 Oct 2014, at 21:51, Malcolm <s...@asis.com> wrote: > > Hi Dee, > Sorry; I didn't do a very good job of generalizing the whole idea. > Here's what I suspect just might be happening in this particular case; > when you make your distilled water perhaps some air becomes entrained - > not hard to do when you boil water. As this water cools, there may be a > tendency for this entrained air to come out of solution and the > microscopic bubbles could reflect just like any other particle giving > you the Tyndall scatter. Try letting the distilled water sit for a > while, meaning hours or a day. See if you get bubbles forming on the > container sides. The conductivity will increase a tiny bit due to the > absorption of CO2 from the air over that time forming H2CO3, carbonic > acid. As a side note, distilled water from the store has sometimes had > hydrogen peroxide added to it, H2O2, and the extra O will come out as > above, leaving behind - H2O!~ tricky, huh? Why do they do it? Perhaps > some added insurance against infection? Who can say? > >> On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 21:02 +0100, Dee wrote: >> Ours comes from the mains water, but the tap water isn't the problem, that >> shows no Tyndall, it was the distilled water that did...dee >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 19 Oct 2014, at 19:10, Malcolm <s...@asis.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Dee, there's another possibility here; I don't know how your water is >>> delivered to your faucet, but one thing that can happen is that a little >>> air gets entrained into it, and as the pressure is released going from >>> your plumbing into a container, the air is released as microscopic >>> bubbles. These are not the ones you see on the sides of a container >>> after you let the container stand - which are far from microscopic >>> anyway. Rather they can make the water even seem cloudy, though the >>> effect dissipates, and even begins to form into those much larger ones >>> that collect on the container's surface. >>> Just a thought, Malcolm >>> >>>> On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 11:02 +0100, Dee wrote: >>>> 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: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. >>> Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org >>> >>> Unsubscribe: >>> <mailto:silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com?subject=unsubscribe> >>> Archives: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/silver-list@eskimo.com/maillist.html >>> >>> Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com> >>> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com> >>> >>> >> >> > >
