Regarding the 'beard' or 'roots' on my one electrode, I notice when I make CS (my own set-up with the 9volt batteries) that depending on whether I use a bubbler or not AND whether the bubbler is moving slowly or gung ho makes a difference as to whether I get a 'beard' or 'roots'.
I get roots when I don't use a bubbler or have the bubbler set to bubble very slowly (two or three bubbles per second). This is also when I get a yellowish CS with a stronger TE. I tend to get a beardy-like, waving grass-like growth when I use my bubbler set to bubble stronger and have more water movement. I also get a totally clear CS with very little TE when I brew like this. I would assume the bubbler is adding air (oxygen,etc...) into the water, both dissolved and not dissolved. Does this have anything to do with the roots or beardiness of the electrode? Or could it be the carbon dioxide in the 'air'? Also, I don't have either of the Hanna meters to check my distilled water but when I check the conductivity of the water before I start brewing a batch AND before I spike it with some of a previous batch, using a plain old digital multimeter (using the mA function), my Food Lion distilled water, which is ozonated and steam distilled, always reads below .05 mA. Is this good? Does it even matter? I would think that I would want the water the least conductive to start with (until I spike it with CS to raise the conductivity). Am I correct? Thanks, Christine -- 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]>
