Sharon, It is best to use steam distilled water.
If you want to see what a laser shining through CS looks like, go to our homepage and you'll see. The colors are not exactly right on but that's the best I could get my picture to look with the imaging software I was working with. The CS is about 20 PPM. Notice how obvious the laser beam is. www.silvergen.com Trem -----Original Message----- From: Sharon L. House <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 8:34 AM Subject: CS>Re: Now what do I do? >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]> > > > -- 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. 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