Virtually all distilled water is ozonated in order to sterilize it. It might even be by law. You can drive off the ozone and dissolved oxygen by heating the water and letting it cool with the container open. I HAVE found that water with a very high ozone content will tend to make a batch go yellow while that same water, if let sit open for a few days..will not. I suspect there is some sort of semi oxidation of silver crystals involved here, where crystals form around an oxygen atom, but nothing 'real' to support it other than references to at least 3 different forms of silver oxide that vary in color.
The "roots"...black on one electrode and grey on the other? The black is silver oxide. That electrode produces oxygen which instantly combines with some of the silver...no way to prevent that. The grey 'beardlike' structures are silver geting caught in the surface tension of hydrogen bubbles. Excess water velocity enhances that surface tension. Very low current draw [fron starting with extremely pure water] produces very small bubbles very slowly that are too small to bubble off. [double whammy] If silver gets caught there in enough concentration, it forms a shell around the bubble that doesn't allow it to grow big enough for its bouyancy to overcome its adhesion to the electrode. It becomes a semiconductor that grows its own hydrogen bubbles even slower and the process starts over in a loop. ..and since an semiconductor structure is insulating the electrode, if there's a voltage monitering 'Auto Off" function, it will be fooled and fail to shut the generator down. Final result? A mess Keep the fuzzies wiped off. But here's another thing. If the grey fuzzies aren't allowed to grow excessivly and you unplug the generator and let it sit, you'll see another "ion cloud" form that's idendical to the one that formed while the generator was on as the hydrogen bubbles dissipate and release the trapped particles. This will increase the particulate portion of the batch and the TE. Lately, just out of curiosity, I let a batch develop a good grey 'beard' on one electrode by letting it sit plugged in after auto shutdown with a very small 'leakage current' overnight, shook it off into the water, then nuked the water for 30 seconds. The silver glop seemed to [sorta] fuse together, let the bubble burst and drop out leaving the rest of the batch clear with a medium TE...no sparklies either [after filtering though paper towel] I presume that the isolated particles were water cooled better, so, they didn't fuse together. The added energy probably increased the Brownian motion too..and maybe negatively charged the particulates temporarily, keeping them separated. I expected the electron stream to convert a lot of silver ions into metallic silver by adding that missing electron..but didn't see much happen to that effect, TE wise. Is mono atomic silver still too small to reflect/refract visible light? Frequency too high to affect an ion? Ken At 02:17 PM 9/21/02 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Marshall, >This is my first post to the group, and I'm also new to the home-made >colloidal silver world. I've been reading the archives, and current >posts...boy, you guys are truly a wealth of information! I received my >machine (a Hulda Clark model) this week, and so far have been quite >dissatisfied with the batches I've made. I called a company (Silvergen, I >believe, Dr. Clark's company was not reachable) and found out that the >reason for the black/gray roots on the electrodes was that the water was >oxidized. I then checked my distilled water, and sure enough it stated that >it was ozoneated. This IS Walgreen's brand. Do they have 2 types? >TIA, >Jannette > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> Te >Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 1:38 PM >Subject: Re: CS>Distilled Water Purity > > >> For all those that want to argue and bick about >> Distilled water purity, I have just tested the >> Walgreens distilled water and it has a reading of 000 >> ppm. Therefore walgreens distilled water is the >> winner for purity! >> >> > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] > >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
