Hi Ode, Making CS with the microwave power supply generates a very large amount of very fine particles, but they tend to settle out over night.
I use aggressive mechanical stirring, which tends to keep the electrodes a little cleaner. "Ole Bob" Ode Coyote wrote: > I've been running batch after batch [pint sized] and found that around 2 out > of 8 develops a different TE than the ordinary very fine uniform one. > Same water, different generators, same electrodes. > I can find no significant electronic difference between generators. Current > regulation is within .03 milliamps from high to low in the 1 milliamp range. > That's a VERY small difference. > > The other than fine TE that develops has a multitude of very small uniform > particles suspended along with a uniform background made of particles so > small as to be indistiguishable as particles. [the normal very fine TE] > The difference in the way the batches ran has to do with bubbley formations > on the electrodes. > Why one batch would begin developing this formation and another not is beyond > me, but I did find that if the electrodes are wiped clean as soon as the > bubbles are noticed, they did not tend to form again and the numbers of > larger particles were greatly reduced. > The most pronounced batch was allowed to actually grow blackish bubbely > tenticles and was allowed to sit overnight as the bubbles constructing those > formations were allowed to dissipate. > > Conclusion: > The small sparkles [course grained] as seen against a background of a fine > grained TE consists of oxides that have fallen off an electrode. > Oxides are pretty much inert, so the effect is merely cosmetic. > If left undisturbed for several days, small black spheroids of oxides should > form on the bottom of the container which should stabilize and isolate these > oxides from the rest of the water and TE should become uniformly fine grained. > I'm watching to confirm this. > > Ode -- 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]>
