Ken Seger wrote:
> Jim wrote: > > > > Ken, > > > > The TDS is "Total Dissolved Solids" meter. A TDS meter is not an accurate > > way > > to measure colloidal silver, as a colloidal particle is larger than a > > dissolved particle, and the conductivity is different. > > > > However, in your case it sounds like you are making "ionic" silver, which > > is a > > dissolved solution, not a colloidal suspention. A TDS meter might be a tool > > you could use with some accuracy. > > Okay, educate me here please (anybody not just Jim)! Tell me what is > real and what is false (to your knowledge). > > 1. What is the difference between "ionic" silver and a collodial Probably a more accurate way than saying "ionic" is to say dissolved. As you will remember from high school chemistry, there are mixutures, colloids, and solutions. Much (not all) of the DC made "colloidal silver" is not colloidal, but predominately a mixture, as a majority of silver is in particles too large to stay in suspention, so it will settle out over time. There will also be some smaller particles in the colloidal and dissolved size ranges, but how much? Are the large particles too large to get into the blood stream? Are they better for some applications? I don't know. A colloid is a suspention of particles by Brownian Motion. The particles are small enough that they will not settle out, but large enough that they cannot go into solution. Our bodies are colloidal systems, and minerals found naturally in plants are of the colloidal size. Does this mean colloidal is the best size? Is it better for some applications, and larger or smaller better for others? A solution is where particles are actually dissolved. Like putting table salt in water, it dissolves. The particles are small enough to not need Brownian Motion to stay suspended, and move about freely without settling out. These dissolved particles are very close together when compared to mixtures or colloids of the same ppm, so the conductivity is much higher. This is what a TDS is designed to read. Is dissolved silver (commonly reffered to as "ionic" even though the term is not exactly correct, as colloidal silver is also ionic technically) stable in the body? I don't know of any study on using dissolved minerals, but there are many people who are wary of the particle size as possibly being less stable. There is the story of a quart of ionic silver killing a rose bush, but I guess I have to try that for myself to see. Is this size range acceptable? better? worse? I don't think the research has been done. > > suspension? > > 2. I've heard of generators being the 27VDC type (with or without > putting a VERY small bit of sea salt in the distilled water), the 180VDC > units, and the 10,000 VAC units. Does this cover it? People are using lots of different ways. I have also seen 2.5vdc, 36vdc. 9vdc, 15,000vac, 120vac, pulsating dc, square wave, sine wave. Probably endless. > > > 3. All generators use 99.99% silver electrodes, these could be silver > wire or silver bars or bullion "rounds", am I correct? Only stipulation > is that ONLY the silver is in the distilled water, connectors have to > stay above the water to avoid contamination. Elecrtode shape matters, voltage potential is not always the same on all points of an electrode. Also wetted surface area matters. > > > 4. The container should be either glass or stainless steel or a special > type of non-reactive food grade plastic. To me, glass seems the > easiest/safest. > > 5. The AC units run at 60 cycles per second. > > 6. The germ killing power of silver is from the abiltiy of silver to > interupt an enzyme process common to all anaerobic bacteria? > > 7. Silver has no effect on viruses? Seems to kill viruses, that is why it is so good. > > > 8. Silver is also effective on fungi? yes > > > 9. Colloidal silver has a biological half life in the body of about 3 > days? > > Any other basic info that I'm missing here? Yes, there is a lot of other information we are all missing, but we will keep plugging along together, learning what we can. > > > "It's not what you don't know that will kill you, it's what you know > that ain't so!" - Mark Twain > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
