Hi Ivan and folks, What are your thoughts on the permeability of HDPE re: O2, CO2, long term storage?
HDPE sure makes handling easier.... James Osbourne Holmes [email protected] FTNWO -----Original Message----- From: Ivan Anderson [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 5:05 PM To: Silver-List Subject: CS>Re: Storing CS in plastic container Spiroflex, That is what I use. HDPE is biologically inert, distilled water for preparing culture media can be collected and stored in polyethylene containers. I'm not sure that it is better than glass, I have had no problems with either. Ivan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "spiroflx" <[email protected]> To: "Ivan Anderson" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 15 September 2000 07:22 Subject: Storing CS in plastic container > Ivan, > You recently wrote: ". . . I have 10 litres of light yellow CS at 20ppm > which is now over 2 yrs old, and > which shows no deterioration at all (kept in plastic, I might add) . . ." > Have you tried storing CS in a high density polyethylene container? Someone > told me that this plastic is better than glass for storing CS because it > does not attract the ions and it is opaque. I notice that strong chemicals, > laundry soaps, chlorox etc are sold in HDPE containers. What do you think? > Spiroflex -- 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]>
