Not long ago, I decanted one batch of colorless CS into a bottle and it
turned purple in a few hours while the original CS still in the original
container didn't.
 I did the same in another bottle and the CS instantly turned murky brown.

 There was some sort of residue in both bottles.

Ode


At 02:07 AM 4/10/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>This is interesting:
>
>" I know from personal experience how easy it is to contaminate a batch."
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>Please share your experience with us.
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>JOH
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Garnet [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 12:08 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: CS>Argyria risk
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>I was not speaking of the incidence of Argyria, but rather the chance that
>one can produce Silver Salts. I know from personal experience how easy it is
>to contaminate a batch. From that perspective I know the risks to be
>significant by my own mistakes. 
>
>Garnet
>
>On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 12:22, Terry Chamberlin wrote:
>> Garnet said:
>> "Argyria is real and it is a real risk to those making
>> their own CS. It is not that hard to produce a Silver Chloride or 
>> Nitrate. Look at the Senator from Montana, he did it in a matter of 
>> years, by not being smart about what he was doing."
>> 
>> I have to emphatically disagree. I would not call one
>> case of argyria in the last 100 years a "real risk".
>> Stan Jones used tap water (most likely polluted city
>> water), brewed his batches for one hour until they
>> looked like coffee, and drank 8 ounces per day for two
>> years.
>> 
>> I am not saying there has only been one case of
>> argyria in the last 100 years, I am saying there has
>> been only one case of argyria from CS *made with
>> silver and distilled water.*
>> 
>> Every other case of argyria (of which there have not
>> been many) in the last century have been the result of
>> large doses of silver compounds, or even silver dust
>> (such as a silver-smith might be in frequent and
>> regular contact with). Using distilled or deionised
>> water and pure silver and electricity of any voltage
>> less than 120 volts will not 'accidently' make CS that
>> is dangerous. If you cook it to a coffee-color, maybe
>> there is a concern. Anyone on this list drinking coffee-colored CS? I 
>> didn't think so.
>> 
>> I drink 16-24 oz/day of crystal-clear CS, have done so
>> for over four years. I put CS in everything in our
>> diet I can put it in. Pancake batter in my house is 2
>> cups of CS with the dry ingredients. Soup is 1 or 2
>> quarts of CS to cook the vegetables in. Fruit juice
>> (the frozen kind) is made only with CS. Our drinking
>> water (distilled water) is 30% CS. Anytime a liquid is
>> needed in our diet, for drinking or cooking, it's CS.
>> 
>> My children are being raised on CS. CS goes in eyes,
>> ears, noses, throats and on anything on the outside of
>> the body it can go on. It treats burns, rashes,
>> stings, cuts and scrapes. It is one of the first
>> things we turn to for health or medical issues.
>> 
>> My children are pink and flesh-colored (except where
>> they are tanned). I have no blue gills (or
>> fingernails). My oldest daughter drinks copious
>> amounts of CS (has for the last 4+ years). Her 6-month
>> old son gets CS each day, as well as what he got
>> within his mom. He is pink and healthy and energetic.
>> 
>> But no one in my family gets sick. Never. Zip. My kids friends all 
>> share their dieases with each other, passing around whatever they 
>> have. "Haven't you heard? There's a bug going around", does not apply 
>> to my family.
>> 
>> What did Stan Jones do to get blue? He drank
>> CS-coffee.
>> OK, don't brew CS-coffee (actually, I make my coffee
>> each morning with CS only - I'm talking about
>> coffee-colored CS). I not only don't need to be
>> careful to avoid what Stan Jones did, I would have to
>> try to accomplish it.
>> 
>> Colloidal Silver is not something you need to fear, or
>> even be careful about. Think about it: Apart from Stan
>> Jones (who obviously didn't have a clue what he was
>> doing), THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE CASE OF ARGYRIA FROM
>> COLLOIDAL SILVER IN THE LAST CENTURY that was made as
>> we are making it. There have been more reports of
>> overdoses and toxic reactions to virtually every other nutrient our 
>> bodies need than to CS.
>> 
>> When I was a kid, my friends and I used to
>> deliberately hyperventilate and then hold our breaths
>> in order to make ourselves faint. Then I saw one of my friends go into 
>> some kind of seizure doing that, and I stopped. So it's possible to 
>> hurt myself with wierd breathing, but I am not careful about 
>> breathing, I just do it. So also I use pure silver and pure water
>> and I brew it a bit and I drink it without restraint.
>> Nothing too careful about that.
>> 
>> I don't know of a single other nutrient that is safer
>> than CS.
>> 
>> My rambling two cents.
>> 
>> Terry Chamberlin
>> 
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