You know, the idea is just wonderful! Colloidal silver is so
useful, it would be great if we could easily make up a batch whenever we
wanted to. All we'd need is a simple off-the-shelf unit, a readily available
catalyst to turn the distilled water into a semiconductor, some distilled
water, and vavoom, there's the colloidal silver. Just think, you wouldn't
have to keep paying high prices for colloidal silver and you could make
as much colloidal silver as you wanted. The idea's great, if only it were
as simple as all that.
OFF-THE-SHELF UNITS
All of the off-the-shelf units made available to the public, so far, have
some serious design flaws. In fact, there are so many flaws, we'd better
go over each major flaw area, one at a time.
Alternating Current (AC) verses Direct Current (DC) - With direct
current, only one of the two plates of silver is giving off silver
particles because the current is only flowing one direction. With alternating
current, the direction of the current changes back and forth, making
it possible for both plates to give off silver particles, alternately.
Most commercial manufacturers who make the super-Tyndall effect colloidal
silver (If you'd like to read more about the super-Tyndall effect, click
What Does Colloidal Mean?.)
use alternating current so that both silver plates contribute silver particles.
Unfortunately, virtually all of the off-the-shelf home units are battery
operated, i.e., using DC. This means, at best, they are working half as
efficiently as their AC counterparts.
What a bunch of BS. What is the difference between
two plates giving off particles half the time and one plate giving off
particles 100% of the time. None. We make CS by the HVAC method,
but this statement is nonsense.
Voltage and Amperage - One of the really sensitive variables
affecting the quality of colloidal silver is the amount of voltage between
the silver plates as well as the amperage (a measurement of the amount
of current). Battery powered off-the-shelf home units typically use a nine
volt battery. These nine volt batteries usually only provide about nine
volts (big surprise, right?). Commercial manufacturers often use ten to
twenty times that amount of voltage in order to produce the desired product.
A low voltage, like nine volts, can often only pull off the plate very
small silver particles, smaller than the minimum 5nm (nm = nanometer =
one thousandth of a micron = one billionth of a meter) colloidal limit.
As a result, such suspensions are predominently molecular, and can, therefore,
promote the build up of a silver toxicity (You may want to click So,
What's Colloidal Silver? to read more about the importance of the
colloidal limits when it comes to silver).
More BS. First of all if you have 3 9 volt
batteries it gives 27 volts. Second, what leaves the plate is silver
ions, regardless of the voltage. Then depending on the temperature,
ph, stirring, particle concentration and so forth, many of the ions combine
into particles. Third, there is no lower limit for a colloid. There
is an upper limit, not a lower, and for all pratcial purposes it is believed
that the smaller the better. Lastly, how does he get molecular?
A molecule requires a two substances combined, and we only have silver.
Battery operated, off-the-shelf, home units usually provide very low
amperages (Amp), as well. A fraction of one Amp is often the maximum amount
of current used in home units. Commercial manufacturers typically use several
Amps of current with their higher voltage equipment. Since the amperage
and voltage play such a significant role in the quality of the product,
it raises serious doubts whether the quality of colloidal silver could
possibly be the same, despite the huge differences in voltage and amperage
between the off-the-shelf, home units and the commercial manufacturers.
It's probably fair to assume the colloidal silvers are NOT the same.
Basically a higher current unit requires higher
voltage, so that the particles ions can be moved away from the anode quickly
and limit particle size.. There is a tradoff, but the big difference
is that the higher voltage and current units make it faster, not necessarily
better. That is why the commercial producers, including myself use them.
There is a strong reason for the low voltage and amperage output of
home units. If you think about it, it's the issue of safety that's the
real reason for the low voltage and amperage. Making available a unit which
supports high voltage and amperage would make it virtually impossible to
obtain product liability insurance. One person electrocuting him- or herself
on a nifty high powered home unit would be devastating. Working with liquids
around high voltages and amperages is begging for disaster. Therefore,
there is virtually no choice but to provide only low voltage and amperage
units where electrocution is minimized. Unfortunately, such safety constraints
significantly effect the quality of colloidal silver.
True on the safety issue, not on the quality issue.
Plate Shape and Orientation - Of equal importance with the type
of current, the amount of current and the voltage is the shape of the silver
plates and how they're oriented with each other. Commercial manufacturers
use flat plates. The flat plates parallel each other giving as much active
surface area to the opposite plate as possible. The distance (the gap)
between the plates in commercial units is usually very small.
I use 14 guage wire, not flat plates. Flat plates produce particles
that are too large for my setup.
In contrast, most home units use plates which are actually cylindrical
rods. This means there is very little active surface because of the cylindrical
rod's shape. Further, with these rods, the distance between the plates
(the gap) changes as one moves around the cylinder. In addition, the overall
gap between the rods in a home unit is much greater then that between the
plates in commercial units. As you might expect, the mass of the silver
particles which are drawn from the widely gapped home unit rods is much
smaller. Again, the design of the home units promotes the development of
a molecular suspension rather than a colloidal suspension.
READILY AVAILABLE CATALYSTS
If there were nothing wrong with the off-the-shelf home unit as far as
design, the next hurdle, the catalyst, might really be the biggest problem.
You see, the substances used in the home as a catalyst really aren't that
great when it comes to colloidal silver. For example, if one uses just
regular table salt (NaCl) or sodium chloride as the catalyst, one always
runs the risk of splitting the salt molecule into its constituent elements,
sodium and chlorine. Chlorine happens to be very toxic when swallowed.
Some even falter when it comes to high dosages of sodium. Thus, in a colloidal
silver home unit, with its tendancy towards a molecular silver suspension,
adding chlorine will give you a wonderful molecular solution called silver
chloride (AgCl) which, if taken in large quantities, can poison you quite
nicely.
A catalyst? This guy doesn't even know basic chemistry.
Salt is not a catalyst (silver is in fact a catalyst), but the solute part
of an electrolyte.
What home units use salt? I am not aware of any.
He is either out of date or looking at products I have never seen nor heard
of.
Commercial manufacturers use other catalysts which can ONLY be
used in a commercial installation with the proper laboratory equipment.
The companies that sell these catalysts will not sell it to you at all
if you're going to use it in a home environment. Strict laws make this
absolutely necessary. As a result, the catalysts used to make the super-Tyndall
effect colloidal silver cannot be used in the home. Instead, only poor
substitutes are available. As a result, even with a home unit designed
properly, obtaining the right kind of catalyst like commercial manufacturers
is still impossible for home use.
I have absolutely no idea what he is talking about
here, and I suspect he doesn't either. I have never heard of any
catalyst being used in making CS at home or commercially.
DISTILLED WATER
Of the three areas necessary to make colloidal silver, obtaining some distilled
water is the least problematic. You can obtain distilled water at many
locations. In a way, it's too bad picking up a well designed home unit
along with the necessary catalyst is NOT as easy as picking up the
necessary distilled water.
Today, most commercial manufacturers of colloidal silver use water that
is even better than distilled water. Usually, they use water that has been
demineralized, has been run through a reverse osmosis machine, before it's
distilled once or twice. Some are even using injectable quality water.
Again, this helps provide a clean, safe colloidal silver.
You can't do much better than distilled water.
Whether it has been run through reverse osmossis is more likely to reduce
the buildup of minerals in the distillation unit and thus reducing maintnance,
than having a significant effect on the final product.
RECOMMENDATIONS
At least so far, the off-the-shelf home units are not designed well for
manufacturing a high quality of colloidal silver. Some of the design flaws
can be rectified quite easily. However, the problem of safety is a major
hurdle which must be addressed before home units can provide super-Tyndall
effect colloidal silver. Anything which doesn't exhibit that profound Tyndall
effect means a high percentage of the suspension is not colloidal. With
silver, non-colloidal leads to toxicity.
Patently not true. Dim tyndall can mean
either few particles, or small particles. The best CS will have a weak
tyndall since it will have small particles. If they are producing
CS that has a high tyndall, then they are producing a product that has
larger particles which would actually be inferior.
When it comes to a commercial grade catalyst, the home manufacturer
is the loser. It is just not available. The catalysts which are available
in the home just don't do the job very well and may even contribute to
the toxicity of the end product. So the catalyst issue is still a real
blockade to home colloidal silver production.
What on earth is he talking about. Making CS requires
no catalyst, for commercial or home use. I know of no way a catalyst
could even be used effectively in one of these units.
So, the bottom line to home production is, DON'T!! Check out
where you can buy the super-Tyndall effect colloidal silver and compare
prices. Hopefully, not everybody selling colloidal silver is filled with
greed. The right stuff makes all the difference in effectiveness AND safety.
Well, looks like he is. I am not, I sell
it, but I don't twist the facts about it like this.
Marshall
This is the end of this Chapter. You might want to click Can
Science Prove Something Is True? to see the next chapter titled, THEORIES.
