IS THERE REALLY "GOLDEN" COLLOIDAL SILVER?
There is no such thing as "golden" colloidal silver. 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.
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, 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. 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
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