My thanks go to Marshall Dudley for useful input on CS and magnetic fields, plastic containers, and PPM vs efficacy. I'm not convinced by his explanation re the latter. Marshall wrote:
"Our testing indicates that once you get to about 20 ppm, the particles get larger instead of more numerous. Thus the efficacy of CS levels out at about 10 ppm, but since the larger particles have less mobility and are less able to get through the stomach wall into the blood stream, when you get above about 20 ppm, the efficacy tends to actually drop." If you check out the details of the lab tests at the Troubled Times site, here is what they say about CS concentrations: "C. Reagents Using a 1.0% silver solution and nutrient broth, dilutions of silver solution were made: 0.10%, 0.05%, 0.025%, 0.005%, and 0.0025%. Four sets of the dilutions were made and inoculated with each microbe. The four sets of inoculated silver solution dilutions were incubated at 35 degrees Celsius for 24 hours." Clearly the same batch of CS was used in each case - concentration variation was via dilution, not different brewing regime. Thus the mystery remains! Your remarks on blackening of CS solution running through a "magnetic structuring" arrangement is interesting. There will be a small emf generated owing to the flow in a magnetic field, but it should be orders of magnitude smaller than the electric fields around the electrodes during eg, LVDC brewing. I have not noticed any blackening when using a small 27V generator, and apart from the bod who overcooked using hot water, haven't heard of others experiencing it either. Fascinating new physics!? Without giving away anything commercially sensitive, Marshall, could you please tell us what the "magnetic structuring" arrangement is supposed to do - presumably there is an improvement in quality.
