Hello Renee, I finally got around to picking up some MSM and running some tests.
It looks like MSM neutralizes about 92 - 100% of the free chlorine dioxide in the MMS-Lite mixture when you add chlorine dioxide to the solution. It also seems to inhibit the release of chlorine dioxide when you add chlorous acid to the solution. My tests only ran for 4 hours, and there are probably more combinations that could be checked out, but the initial results indicate that MSM and chlorine dioxide don't mix well. I really don't have a good way to test how much MSM is left after the chlorine dioxide is used up. Roy may be getting some results from the MSM, from drinking more fluids, or he may simply believe that this solution will help him and it does. There is also the possibility that unactivated sodium chlorite doesn't bind completely with MSM, and it may break off and be able to have some effect away from the MSM. In 1 liter of water, I added 1000 mg of MSM and I started with 0.88 ml (15 drops) of MMS activated with 0.88 ml of 10% citric acid. I let the activation continue for 10 minutes before adding this mixture to the MSM solution. In 1 liter of water this produces about 120 PPM available chlorine dioxide with about 24 PPM of that as free chlorine dioxide. When this was added to the MSM solution, there was no indication of any free chlorine dioxide initially, or after 4 hours of sitting on the counter. I then mixed up a chlorine dioxide solution of 120 PPM. I put 4 ml of 5% sodium chlorite in a glass and activated it with 4 ml of 6% hydrochloric acid. I then added this to the 1 liter of water that had 1000 mg MSM dissolved in it. When I measured the free chlorine dioxide it was 10 PPM. After waiting 4 hours the concentration of chlorine dioxide remained at about 10 PPM, so that would indicate that all of the anti-oxidant capability of the MSM could have been used up. I repeated each of these tests 4 times and the results were consistent each time. >From this limited testing it would appear that MMS Lite is light on MMS... :) Tom
