You seem to have qouted someone else's marketing hype without testing / researching / verifying it yourself.... why would anyone wish to do this? You loose credibility in doing so.
bjs1779 wrote: > > IS THERE REALLY "GOLDEN" COLLOIDAL SILVER? > > There is no such thing as "golden" colloidal silver. UNTRUE; this has already deen discussed & documented... > Silver is white. > Lange's Handbook of Chemistry lists > silver as "...the whiteist of metals. Pure silver particles suspended in > water should have a very slight > white-colored fog to it. Only if they're very coarse particles. Or if you add salt & form insoluable silver chloride... try the experiment to verify for yourself... > > If you make colloidal silver with a very low current, it will take a > long time... > long enough for silver > compounds to be formed due to electrolysis. Even distilled water > contains trace elements, Properly made distilled water does not; tested at 000 to 001 on a TDS1 gives the desired starting point, and the silver can't react with what's not there in the first place! [grin] . and Merck's > Handbook describes many silver compounds as "pale yellow." They include > silver bromide, silver > carbonate, silver chlorite, silver hyponitrate, silver iodide, silver > nitrite, silver phosphate and silver picrate. > Some of these compounds are described as toxic. > > The proper way to make colloidal silver is to use enough current to > cause tiny silver particles (each 12 to > 15 atoms) to be "knocked" off of the electrodes, making the desired > concentration in 7 to 15 minutes. > This is a MECHANICAL process. You want to do it quickly enough so that > chemical compounds do not > have time to form. If the process takes 20 to 45 minutes, the chemical > process overshadows the > mechanical effect, and you get silver compounds. WHAT compounds depend > on the content of the > original water. Some silver compounds are quite toxic. Merck's lists > silver nitrate as highly poisonous. > > NEVER use SEA SALT! > > In order to conduct electricity, a TINY amount of salt must be added to > the water. Without it, you > cannot get enough current to flow. I couldn't disagree more... I hook up instrumentation and monitor current flows throughout the CS generating process; good distilled water still has adequate conductivity (it seems you've never tested it with a simple meter to have said this.) IF YOU ADD SALT, the first thing you produce is silver cloride, the whitish cloud you speak of. Pure silver particles will not be formed until all of the cloride has reacted with the silver you're trying to make... It's simple chemistry. > This salt must be very pure, or you > risk adding more impurities which > will combine with the silver to make still more chemical compounds. >You > want plain, pure salt. > > Sea salt is the residue from evaporated ocean water. The ocean contains > not only sodium chloride, but > EVERY MINERAL KNOWN TO EXIST ON THE PLANET! Sea salt is NOT pure sodium > chloride, > but contains virtually everything on earth. It may make a good > trace-mineral supplement, but DO NOT > use it in making colloidal silver. > > I looked at the salt available at the grocery store and found that, > while some contain aluminum salts as a > desiccant, Morton non-iodized salt does not. It does have a tiny amount > of sodium silicate, which in the > "few grains" required should cause no problem. A better idea might be to > use "Canning and Pickling Salt" > found in the canning supply section. It is generally pure salt. > > If you're really paranoid, you can get pure sodium chloride in a sterile > distilled water base in small bottles > from your pharmacist. In the tiny amount required, one small bottle > should last nearly forever. > > BUYER BEWARE! > > Many "colloidal silver makers" have appeared on the market with price > tags ranging from $120 to $250, > and every one I've seen has consisted of a small plastic box containing > three 9 volt batteries and a light > bulb! While this circuit works, the current varies with the water > conductivity, the condition of the > batteries, and the length of electrode immersed in the water, making it > hard to get a consistent > concentration of silver from batch to batch. It's also pretty hard to > justify paying $250 for a $5 plastic > box and a tenth-ounce of silver wire! > > To address these problems, I designed a circuit which is AC line powered > and uses an electronic > constant-current regulator to eliminate the batteries and guesswork. > Rather than the skinny electrode wire > used on the other devices, I chose heavy 12 gauge silver electrodes, > which will last for many hundreds of > gallons. The Colloidal Silver Generator will transform 16 ounces of > distilled water to high-quality colloidal > silver in just 10 minutes. This device was featured in the April 1997 > issue of 73 AMATEUR RADIO > TODAY magazine. > > Complete article can be seen at: > > http://www.bioelectrifier.com/silver.htm Please test and verify your information before posting it to this list; people who have problems and need sincere help come here; they don't need marketing hype which is misleading... or incorrect, as is much of the above! Your credibility has fallen badly... Sincerely, Bruce > > -- > 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. 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