You're on to it Ken! Ivan.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ode Coyote [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2001 03:37 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: CS>Scientific Debate & "One Upsmanship" > > > The reference is an old timer probably from the days when many > people were > on the farm and produced their own milk...and milk jugs were 2+ gallon > galvanized steel affairs. [stainless today] > Both zinc and silver ions have pretty much the same preservative effects > and dissimilar metals in a lactic acid environment just might produce a > fair amount of one or both. > Similarly, silver might "dissolve" in water if the container is metal and > the water has a weak acidic or basic PH. Most 'normal' [spring, > well ,rain > runoff etc] water does have something other than a totally neutral PH. > Water barrels and the roofing shingles that caught the water were > typically made from split oak which has a high tannic acid content. > Charring the inside if the barrel was sometimes but not always done to let > the carbon absorb much of the acid so the water would be sweet. > It's doubtful that the old timers from whence the stories originated used > distilled water for much of anything and glass containers were a bit more > rare than today, being hand blown into moulds till the mid to > late 1800s or > so. > Ken > -- 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]>
