-----Original Message----- From: Ode Coyote <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 8:10 PM Subject: Re: CS>Paul and nasal fungus
Copper does strange things to CS. Drop a small piece of shiney copper into a batch and let it sit for a week or two..you'll see. It pulls about everything out of the water and drops it on the bottom... ***copper still shiney*** or sometimes turns silvery. Ode ~~~~~ >>>Hello Ode, and forum, That's strange -- I get quite different results. >>>I place a coiled piece of solid copper wire (about nine inches long) in the bottom of a one-quart glass jug, fill jug with distilled water. While making the CS, ***the copper wire becomes coated with jet-black deposit*** (most of it concentrated closest to positive silver plate, much less so under the negative). When I scrub the wire clean, I get black smears on my fingers which are quite difficult to wash off the fingers. If I replace the clean copper wire in the jug of finished CS and leave it there for 24 to 48 hours, *the wire collects more black deposit ... no droppings of any sort on the bottom of the jug*. >>>While making CS, the negative plate gets coated with near-black deposit, BUT the deposit has ***a red tinge*** ... any explanations for that, folks? No "sparklies" visible with red laser light beam. >>>I am using four 9-volt batteries connected in series. I use two .999 fine silver plates which are about 3/4 inches wide, about 3 and a 1/2 inches length submerged. The plates are about 3/16 of an inch thick (two milimitres). >>>I have the plates about one and a half inches apart, and the electric current is on for about 20 to 25 minutes. I stir the water twice, at about ten minute intervals, by swirling the plates round and round in the jug. The finished CS is usually very clear, but sometimes slightly milky if I have some contamination from somewhere. >>>Question: How come most of the people on this forum take somewhat over an hour to get their finished product? Could it be that mine takes only about 20 minutes, because of the much larger surface areas of the silver plates, compared to the areas of silver wire used by most/many people? >>> -- Just for your information ... your replies will be appreciated -- the first time I made CS, I left the current on for just over one hour, and there was black gunk, both floating on the surface and deposits on the bottom. When I poured the blackish water out, an area of at the bottom of the jug was shiny as a mirror. It was attached to the glass, but scrubbed off quite easily. >>>Regards, Phinneas
