Re: CSRe: using salt- was ceramic purifiers...

2003-11-26 Thread Ode Coyote
Uh, I wrote that, not Ole Bob. PPM is milligrams per liter by definition. [weight per volume..not numbers of pieces as parts seem to imply] So one particle weighing one milligram sitting in one liter of water is still 1 PPM, same as if there were ten billion particles weighing a total of one

Re: CSRe: using salt- was ceramic purifiers...

2003-11-25 Thread Ode Coyote
Personally, I wouldn't hesitate to use that filter for a single second. 1 PPM at a gallon a day drinking water ain't diddly squat especially diluted into what..6-8 quarts of body fluids? ..and there has to be some sort of elimination rate even for AgCl. How much AgCl actually is absorbed into

Re: CSRe: using salt- was ceramic purifiers...

2003-11-25 Thread Reid Harvey
Ole Bob, Thanks for the reassurance, and I do feel a little better about people using the silver chloride candles. But the calculation I did indicates a little under 1.0 ppm per 100 mls. of cold drinking water, and not per gallon. I'm going to take some of the filtrate to local labs, testing for

Re: CSRe: using salt- was ceramic purifiers...

2003-11-24 Thread Marshall Dudley
Reid Harvey wrote: Ode, Thanks for all this info. I woke up struggling with the idea of informing people on the methods of saturating AgCl ceramic water purifiers. It's incredibly simple to take a common, ceramic candle filter, saturate with silver nitrate, then run water through it.

CSRe: using salt- was ceramic purifiers...

2003-11-21 Thread Reid Harvey
Ode, Thanks for all this info. I woke up struggling with the idea of informing people on the methods of saturating AgCl ceramic water purifiers. It's incredibly simple to take a common, ceramic candle filter, saturate with silver nitrate, then run water through it. Then, with the silver

RE: CSRe: using salt- was ceramic purifiers...

2003-11-21 Thread Richard Harris
: using salt- was ceramic purifiers... Ode, Thanks for all this info. I woke up struggling with the idea of informing people on the methods of saturating AgCl ceramic water purifiers. It's incredibly simple to take a common, ceramic candle filter, saturate with silver nitrate, then run water