Hello Marshall, Your method will be ineffective because it is not strong enough.
I believe I followed your instructions properly, but please double check my efforts. I mixed 1.75 teaspoons of sodium chlorite powder in 8 ounces of water. I then mixed 2.5 teaspoons of citric acid powder in 8 ounces of water. I then placed 1 teaspoon of each in a glass, let it activate, then added enough water to make 1 liter. When I measure the sodium chlorite solution I find that it is a 2% solution. When I measure the citric acid solution I find that it is a 5% solution. When I mix a teaspoon of each together, let them activate, and add to make a liter of foot bath solution, I end up with about 6 PPM free chlorine dioxide. 100 - 150 PPM free chlorine dioxide is needed to penetrate the nail and nail bed, so 6 PPM is going to fall short of the goal. Sodium chlorite releases chlorine dioxide when its PH is lowered. The reason HCl is used in this case is because we want to release all of the available chlorine dioxide as free chlorine dioxide. I believe all of the HCl is used up in the reaction, so we don't really have to worry about HCl in the final solution. HCl is capable of reducing the PH of the sodium chlorite to a point where all of the available chlorine dioxide is released as free chlorine dioxide. In this case, the free chlorine dioxide is needed in order to kill off the fungus infection. We don't need a residual, we need penetrating power during the bath. The bath is repeated several times to make sure the fungus is eliminated. Citric acid is used when you are interested in making chlorous acid and only releasing a small portion of the available chlorine dioxide as free chlorine dioxide. When you add 5 ml of 5% citric acid to 2% sodium chlorite, the PH is driven down to about 2.8 releasing about 10% of the available chlorine dioxide as free chlorine dioxide. This is pretty much what happened. Now, if citric acid is all that you have, you can still achieve 100 PPM free chlorine dioxide. In order to do this you would need about 83 ml, or about 17 teaspoons, of each. 17 teaspoons would be 85 ml and that would give you a concentration of 1020 PPM available chlorine dioxide and 102 PPM of that would be free chlorine dioxide. This would put you in the range that would work with nail fungus. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Dudley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:07 PM Subject: Re: CS>Sodium Chlorite and Nail Fungus > HCl is rather corrosive. I would suggest using citric acid for the > activation (just like adding MMS to lemon juice) instead. This is what > I figure: > > molecular weight of sodium chlorite = 90.44 > molecular weight of chlorine dioxide = 67.45 > molecular weight of citric acid = 192.14 > > So if we have a liter of water, we need to make 100 ppm which requires > 100 mg of chlorine dioxide. This will require 100*90.44/67.75 mg of > sodium chlorite and 100*192.75/67.25 mg of citric acid. > > Thus we need 133.5 mg of sodium chlorite and 286.6 mg of citric acid per > liter of water. However most sodium chlorite is only 80% NaClO2, so we > have to use 25% more, or 166.875 mg of commercially available stuff. > > Now measuring the effective density of both, I find that one level > teaspoon of sodium chlorite weights 4.4 g and one level teaspoon of > citric acid (NOW brand) weights 5.5 g. > > Thus using volume measurements I find that we need .038 teaspoon of > sodium chlorite and .052 teaspoon of citric acid. Now if we multiply > both of these by 48 (48 teaspoons) we get 1.824 and 2.495 teaspoons per > cup of water. > > This can be approximated by using 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 teaspoon for the sodium > chlorite, and 2 1/2 teaspoons of the citric acid in a cup of water > each. If you bottle each of these, then use 1 teaspoon of each in a > liter of water for the bath, that should come pretty close to what is > needed for the 100 ppm of chlorine dioxide. > > As for proper activation, I would do what is said below, use 1 teaspoon > each in a glass of water, wait 30 seconds for activation, then add water > to make one liter for the final bath. > > Marshall -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]>
