Yes, of course, I asumed that anyone making CS would know that you must use distilled water to avoid unwanted silver compounds with the impurities in tap water.
Dwight Lorenz wrote: > Dick--I think you forgot to emphasize that only > distilled water should be used to make CS. > Dwight > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dick Jaffe <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 10:10 AM > Subject: Re: CS>Re: Bil, Sludge & Honey > > >I use only a tiny drop of honey on the end of a toothpick and I make my CS > in a > >24 Oz. "Simply Home" Campbell's soup jar. I can't recall now who gave me > that > >honey trick but it was emphasized to use only a tiny drop. My 10 minute > >solutions are clear and very pale yellow, not milky. > > > >2001 TV VCR wrote: > > > >> Dick, > >> > >> Thanks for the tip. I have tried the drop ( I used > >> a big drop) of honey when making 16 oz. CS > >> and it came out a real milky colored yellow. The > >> electrodes sure were clean though (no sludge). > >> > >> Obviously having any form of food in the mix > >> could cause unwanted silver compounds to be > >> formed. > >> > >> Anyone want to comment on this? > >> > >> Bil > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Dick Jaffe <[email protected]> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 6:26 PM > >> Subject: Re: CS>Re: Bil, sludge > >> > >> > Try using a drop of honey on the tip of a toothpick stirred into the > >> heated > >> > water before inserting the silver electrodes. I've been doing that for > >> > several years and get about a 10ppm solution, pale yellow in color, in > >> about > >> > 10 minutes. > >> > > >> > Fred wrote: > >> > > >> > > > >> Is it possible to make 5 or 10 ppm CS by the gallon > >> > > > >> without the sludge using low voltage? > >> > > > >> > >> > > > >> Bil > >> > > > >> > > The process of generating colloidal silver is the same as > >> > > the plating process - ions are released and travel to the > >> > > negative electrode where they collect an electron and turn > >> > > back into silver. You can not stop that process! The fact > >> > > they are sludge instead of nice shiny silver is that conditions > >> > > are not right for fine crystal growth - normal silver plating uses > >> > > cyanuric acid to provide good conductivity of the solution and > >> > > to assist in forming fine grain crystals. What you get are more > >> > > like snow flakes, weakly bound/random crystals! > >> > > > >> > > See my other post why the HV AC process avoids sludge > >> > > formation, by blasting the sludge forming metal particles into > >> > > the solution as quickly as formed. This unfortunately makes > >> > > metallic particles, not ions of silver, but at least no crystals! > >> > > > >> > > [email protected] (took a day off from work today!) > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > 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] > >> > > Silver-list archive: > http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >> > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >> >
