In a message dated 7/3/04 8:11:55 AM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> The rate of hydrogen and oxygen bubbles being emmited into the water would
> probably emulsify the mix which would later stratify into layers of black
> and brown sludge before crud starts falling out.

Hi Ode.  I had to laugh at your description.  That is exactly what my husband 
produced in his first batch of transformer-produced CS.  He decided to test 
out my theory that if three nine-volt batteries did the job, so would 27 volts 
of direct electricity.  So he bought a couple of 15-volt transformers, clipped 
on the silver bars, plugged them into adjacent outlets and let er rip!!  But 
he had filled the jar with tap water.  By the time I got home, he had a jar 
full of BLACK yuck.  He didn't know that I used distilled water.  I duplicated 
what he did with distilled water and -- oila! -- perfectly clear colloidal 
silver.  Later refined it to one 24-volt transformer.  Then later still tried 
with 
lower voltages -- down to a 9-volt.  They all work -- just takes a little 
longer.  I'm not sure that the lower voltages don't produce a better colloid -- 
smaller particles maybe?       MA