Hey David -- I've been gone for two weeks, so didn't respond to this most fascinating post. Your Grandma clearly had a green thumb! I'll be rushing through the next batch of digests to see if you have gotten any further on this, but thanks for your very thorough answer to my questions! Take care, Katarina
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 13:36:57 -0700 > From: POTTED PLANT <[email protected]> > To: "1 C. SILVER" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: CS>Re: svortex question > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Katarina Wittich wrote: >> >> Hi David, >> thanks so much for the info. >> My big question is how do you know if it's working - or working right??? Is >> there any way to test? >> > > Hello Katarina and fellow Listmates! > > Katarina, do you have any more BIG questions? Geesh. > > So far as I have found, there are 4 things that change when > water is structured: > > Increased ultraviolet absorption > Change in surface tension > Change in dielectric constant > Change in PH > > There are things germinating behind these beady eyes. > (Grandma didn't like to waste anything and told me whenever I > found empty space that I should put in some potting soil and > plant something.) > > > UV Absorption: > > I think it was Marshall Dudley who mentioned that he had > experienced different patterns in water(using a spectro- > photometer) that had been exposed to magnets, crystals,"healing > hands", etc. > > I am like everybody else, just when I need to analyze UV > absorption, my Bat Spectrophotometer is in my Bat Utility > Belt (BUB.) which is still at the cleaners.( Mom always said > that when it comes to BUBs., cleanliness is next to Godliness.) > > There must be some way to correlate the UV absorption > patterns with something easier for the folks at home to use. > Sound absorption? Other ranges of electromagnetic energy > absorption? Better tales of woe absorption? (becomes a better > listener?) > > Ok, so part of the potted plant is working on that approach. > > > Surface Tension: > > I thought "Gee, maybe it could be as simple as having a piece > of ceramic tile that could be acquired at almost any home > improvement center (so it would be "standardized)" > I was thinking that a water proof grid of lines could be > applied so that we could put a drop of "before" water on the > tile grid and see how many lines it spreads out after some > standardized time. Then a drop of the "after" water to see > how many more lines or less lines it spreads out. The > difference could be an indication of degree of structure. > > However, at one site I visited, the experimenter had a brief > blurb about putting cups of water on the magnets. He said > that he had heard somewhere that the surface tension changes > only about 2% and with one pole (I forget which) it goes up and > with the other, it goes down. If that is close to true, then > I suspect it is going to be difficult to see a 2% difference > in how much the water spreads out. > > > Dielectric Constant: > > For a given size and shape of a substance, the electrical > capacity of that substance is apparently determined mostly by > the dielectric constant. > > So,if we make a test cell (small plastic box, a vial, etc.) with flat > electrodes on the outside (perhaps foil on the flat > sides of the box) we have a capacitor. If we use that capacitor > to to help tune an oscillator (555?), then as different liquids > are put into the "cell", their differing dielectric constants > will be expressed as differing capacitances. That, in turn, > would change the oscillator frequency accordingly. > > Now, the bottom line is that the less the dielectric constant > changes,the more sensitive the apparatus has to be. > > The potted plant is working on that too. > > > PH: > > This could be the easiest and simplest method. It seems to me > that it depends on 2 things: How much the PH changes and where > do we have to go to get a PH kit that is sensitive enough (not > to mention how much?) > If Murphy isn't involved this time, the "better" PH kits used > for swimming pools or fish tanks might work. > At least that is easy to check out. > > Alas, it will be two weeks before I have the funds to get rolling on > this stuff, but then, the ol' potted plant will have > grown two weeks wiser! > > Sorry for the long post, but I thought it best to take it in > one chunk. > > Well, time to go water the plants. Tsk Tsk > > Be in Wellness, > > David -- 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]>
