Mike, Thanks so much for the reply! Okay, here's the scoop on my HomeCure boughten silver.
The front of the bottle has the brand name which is "TriMedica" and it says "Enhanced Colloidal Silver Liquid - The Natural Alternative to Antibiotics". On the side it says (in part): "Our 5-10 parts per million of silver is considered the safest, most effective potency. Certificate of Analysis proving purity and quality provided upon request." Also it says: "The smaller the silver particle size (0.001 - 0.004 microns or less), the more effective the product. Our silver particles are the smallest of all brands tested. Also, larger silver particles produce yellow or amber colored product, while ours is clear, pure and, as users prove, the most effective Colloidal Silver you can buy!" It also says to store away from electrical appliances and magnets. You know, just the other day I got to wondering if magnets could affect the particle charge or something. Almost asked but thought it might be a dumb question. But, right now, I'm not as concerned about this as I am about my homemade stuff. I know that in my post of 5/21, I said that the water looked kind of yellowish. But I seemed to forget at the time that we have very orange water from tannins that stain all my dishes, even the clear glass like the pyrex measuring cup I used to make the silver in. I noticed that when I poured the distilled water into the cup for the second batch that it already looked yellow :-) When I pour my homemade stuff into a white paper cup it does not look yellow. So I'm to assume that either my silver is weak or, from the above paragraph, that the particle size is small enough that it doesn't appear yellow. So, Mike, do you think that most homemade CS is weaker than store bought? I've been under the impression from what everyone has said on this list that the homemade is somehow superior to most of what you can buy. Do you think I'll always have to use double what I would use of the boughten variety? (when I speak of boughten, I'm assuming a decent product here, not a ripoff) Or do you think that I should leave the run time longer and try my experiment again? Incidentally, because some on the list think that steam distilled is preferable to water that doesn't mention the method of distillation on the label (it just says distilled), I purchased some steam distilled yesterday. However, it doesn't say micron filtered, it just says ozonated. The distilled water I used to make my silver says both micron filtered and ozonated. It gets so confusing, doesn't it. So maybe I should make a batch using the newer steam distilled water. I also might mention that during my silver-making process, that once it really got going good I could just barely see a very tiny stream of black particles running in a line from the feathering electrode into the water. Other than that, I noticed almost no bubbling like others speak of. Just the tiniest little bit. I could not see a yellowish cloud forming around the electrodes at all. Yesterday I bought a little pocket laser pointer. I haven't tried it yet on the boughten silver, I'll do that today, but I did try it on my homemade stuff. However, I have a question for all you laser pointer aficionados out there. I poured some of my own silver in a clear unstained glass canning jar. When I shone the pointer through it I saw nothing. The room wasn't totally dark but quite dim. There was only the red as it reflected on both sides of the glass but nothing in between. Then when I moved the pointer around a little a red line appeared that was about a quarter to a third inch wide and seeemed to be on the bottom of the glass even though I wasn't pointing it toward the bottom. Of course, I'm seeing this red line through the water and it seemed kind of grainy but it also seemed that way when I tried shining it through pure distilled water too. There didn't seem to be any difference. I'm not doing this right, am I. Should I be looking for that red line or not? It's so strange when you're shining a light through the water but you don't see a light. Know what I mean? Sorry about the long post but these things are kind of hard to describe in words. Thanks, Sharon -- 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]>
