Jade wrote:
> Just starting to make colloidal silver. Wondering if we could standardize a
> recipe.
You read my mind, Jade.
> 1) Gauge of silver wire.
> I have seen everything from 18 gauge to 12 gauge to silver ingots.
Correct!
> 2) Purity of silver
> I've heard anything from 99.9 to 99.999% silver.
We seem to have agreed that anything purer than 99.9% fine, also
referred to as "three nines pure", is good enough.
> 4) I heard cautions against letting the silver touch the sides or bottom of
> the
> glass, to directions to hang the wire over the glass. Why or why not?
I've taken both suggestions and combined them. I bent my wires so
they sort of clip on the rim, *and so that the submerged portions are
not touching the glass. Ain't I smart!? <grin>
Bad ASCII art...
__ this part goes over the rim of the glass
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_| |__ clip attaches here
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| this part's submerged
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> 5) Length of time
Depends on a lot of variables, doesn't it!
> I am hoping to get something like
>
> For 12 gauge, submerge X inches for Y minutes to get Z potency.
> For 14 gauge....
> For 16 gauge...
> For ingots...
> To get A ppm, cook X minutes
> To get B ppm, cook Y minutes
>
> Can we get any consensus here?
We've got so many variables that it's difficult to know what's
happening.
The commonest recipe seems to be something like:
14 gauge, something like 3-4 inches submerged
8 oz of really clean water (steam distilled or better)
1-2 drops of saline made from 1/2 tsp salt in 6 oz of water
This is supposed to yield about 1 ppm per minute of operation.
**But** there are unanswered questions, such as...
Distance between electrodes: Is production rate sensitive to this?
Touching or not touching the glass? Important?
Wire gauge: what effect does shape and area of the electordes have?
Is production rate area dependent?
How much effect does saline concentration have on rate? Using 1 or 2
drops is merely a factor of two, after all!
And what effect do all these variables have on particle size and
anti-microbial activity?
I think a very good question to ask ourselves might be this: Is the
production rate more dependent on current flow than anything else? If
so, we'd have a way to measure total suspended silver evolved as a
function of current and time -- correcting for many of the geometric
and procedural variations noted above.
I'll post in another message some experiments I'm thinking about.
Mike
[Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian]
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[Speaking only for himself... ]
