You can freeze sea water and get virtually pure water in the ice. All the dissolved salts in sea water are ionic. I see no reason well water should be different.
See http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/Current/Projects/22279.pdf for a science fair project on this. http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/glencoescience/tutor/content/pdf/masters/gsr7_4.pdf But the best reference I can find is at http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/supplements/water_purification.pdf Dean Miller wrote: > Hi Marshall, > > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 11:02:45 -0500, Marshall Dudley > <mdud...@execonn.com> wrote: > > >When water freezes, the ice crystals produced are pure water, and what is > >left get concentrated. This continues until either the last part does not > >feeze at all, or it freezes together at a lower temperature. Thus CS gets > >concnetrated as it freezes, and aggregation can and will occur. > > > >A small amount of ice will not hurt, or even if maybe 70% or so freezes, but > >if you freeze it solid you will likely rreduce the ionic content, and > >increase the particle size. > > Have you ever frozen well water that has lots of dissolved minerals? > Didn't the mineral freeze right along with the ice (as long as they > were ionic)? I'd suspect the ionic portion of CS will freeze right > along with the water (haven't tried it) and only the larger silver > particles will settle out -- but that would happen with the CS even if > it wasn't frozen. > > -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF > > -- > 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: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
