Marshall, Now I'm rereading the last part of your message, and it sounds as if this is another good suggestion, using AgNO3 with cafeine, along with some other silver already present. Just a couple of questions and observations:
If the first silver in the purifier medium were the nitrate, fired then going to metal, it seems the particles would be very small. By contrast I'm thinking that if using CS the particles may be a lot bigger, something like 100 nanometers. This difference wouldn't seem all that important to me, given that lots of things have worked as disinfectant so far, various forms of silver and different particle sizes. But in these several scenarios, if doing additional treatment with the nitrate then the caffeine, then enlarging particle size, what would then be the various implications? For one thing, according to what you're saying the existing particles will get bigger, no additional particles forming. So far I'm not seeing clearly and maybe a few days of thought will help. A novel prospect would appear to be first saturating with the density of particles desired, albeit small particles, then growing these particles in the second treatment, to an optimal size. But while it sounds good on paper I'm hard put to think what those optimal densities and optimal sizes would be. Reid Marshall Dudley said: .........I still think that a mixture of CS, silver nitrate, and a developer could do wonders. Have you tried that? The CS would provide silver atoms/particles for the silver in the silver nitrate to plate out on, and the developer (even caffine works if you keep the ph right), will cause the silver to plate out onto the particles over a few minutes time. A way to do this without having to mix up a new batch each time would be to saturate the unit with CS, or put it in the original mixture before firing. Then once it is dry, slowly force a mixture of silver nitrate and developer through it. When the silver crystals are as large as you want (the whole thing should turn grey then black as the crystals increase in size), flush with clean water to remove the developer and silver nitrate. If you let it sit 15 minutes or so, then most of the silver nitrate should reduce, thus reducing wasted silver. Be sure to pick a developer that you can either completely wash out, or one that is non-toxic. I think caffine may be a good choice for that since it is pretty well non-toxic. For additional insight on this, I suggest researching photo developing techniques. Marshall -- 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]>
