Hi Paul, You're absolutely correct. The only criteria is that the water be demineralized. Distillation or deionization both do the job. When using deionized water it is harder to get the process of getting the silver to start releasing atoms because of the low water conductivity. As far as I'm concerned the end product is superior.
In our area Safeway stores carry both deionized and distilled water. The deionized always has a lower uS reading. Best regards, Trem ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Holloway" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:18 AM Subject: [silver_list] CS>Deionized water > Hi List, > > I am a new member and I hope you can settle an argument. > I have been making CS for many years, using deionized water as I live in the > UK where distilled water is hard to come by. > I have now been told in no uncertain terms that it is impossible to make > good quality CS using deionized water, and that only distilled water will do > the job. The deionized water I was using for several years was from the > biochemistry lab I used to work in, and had a resistivity of less than 0.1 > uS/cm (resistance 10-15 megohms/cm), which is at least as good as distilled > water. I now use deionised water that I buy (from my local pharmacy or from > Superdrug), but it seems in every way identical to the lab deionized water - > the initial current is identical and the colour and taste of the resulting > CS is identical. > > Do I really need to start distilling water, or can I carry on using > deionized water? > If I can't use this water, why not, as it is at least as pure as distilled? > Surely it is the purity of the water that maters, not the method used to > purify it. > > Thanks in anticipation, > > Paul Holloway > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
