I tried the honey trick and got gold water, but it took the same amount of
time to brew 8 PPM. about 1 1/2 hours. I'll bet the particles are larger.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Jaffe [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 1:08 PM
> To: [email protected]
> 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!)
> > > >
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