Dear everyone experienced in the making of CS -- HELP!! I have a number of questions about making my own CS. I've been following the particle size/color/water heating controversies and still am not sure what I should be doing. My first batch ofCS did not help with my sinus infection - while the storebought one cleared it up right away - so I must be doing something wrong. I am concerned that my particles are too big to absorb properly.The makers of my machine say that at 20 minutes you should have 3-5ppm sol of .0005 to .015 microns How do I find out the size of the particles - without buying expensive machinery? The solution had Tyndall effect - but can anyone explain how thick or bright the beam should be -- or what variations might tell you something about your solution?
Anyhow, I tried making four different batches, using two different distilled waters and doing one each with boiled water that had cooled slightly and the other with room temperature unboiled, and here's what I got. (Oh yeah, I'm using the Beck's silver pulser which is a 27 volt DC machine made by Sota and I used 16 ounces of water and put two tablespoons of my last batch of CS in each as a starter. I ran them all for 25 minutes.) The room temperature solutions were both colorless with a very slight white cloudiness. The next morning they were clear and there was a small ring of white precipitate at the bottom of the glass. Is this a silver salt and therefore an indication that the solution is not pure because the water isn't pure? It happened with both distilled waters. One of them had a brighter Tyndall than the other. Does that mean it is stronger? The solutions which I made with boiled water (allowed to cool so that it wouldn't break the glass - but still steaming) are amber colored and clear. They had no precipitate in the morning, but a lot of sludge on the electrodes when making it and left a dark stain in the bottom of the glass and colored the glass slightly. I can't tell if their Tyndall is slightly weaker or if it is just that they are darker colored. When I boiled the water there was a white residue inside the porcelain tea kettle which I had carefully cleaned with distilled water before use. While making the boiled one I checked Tyndall as it went along and there didn't start to be any tyndall until 20 minutes, then it built up fast. So which are the better solutions and what is the best way to make it????? Which one would have the smallest particle size? And how do I figure out how strong it is - Is it Robert who can test it and how do I send it to you? Any help at all on this would be appreciated because I am definitely confused. On the one hand it sounds as if clear is smaller particle size - but on the other hand it sounds as if cloudy and precipitte is exactly what you don't want because of silver salts. And I don't know how to produce clear without precipitate. The original solution which I used which didn't do much was very light amber and clear and was made with boiling - but I didn't have a laser at the time to check for Tyndall. Oh yes, and if I want to make more than 16 ounces at a time do I just double the time I take while I double the amount of water? Or will that imbalance something. anyhow, thank you all again. Katarina -- 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]>
