-----Original Message----- From: Ode Coyote <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:22 AM Subject: Re: CS>
Yup, results vary. ... >>>Hi Ode, thanks for relating some of your experiences. Could you and maybe others, help me with the following questions, please? You wrote... ...The point here is, ***if you use copper in the process, there's no telling what you'll wind up with*** when. It doesn't have to even have an active "charged" part to play a role. It's almost like having a shape shifter with a mind of it's own running around. ... ... ***I'm sticking with silver and distilled as a rule.*** Anything else appears to be MADE out of exceptions unless you massively overwhelm the odds in a given direction. ... >>>Folks, in my previous post I wrote the following: >>>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*. ~~~~~ >>>Ode, you wrote, "I'm sticking with silver and distilled as a rule", -- Do you think that I would be better off by NOT placing the copper wire in the bottom of the jug while making CS? Also, would I be better off by not leaving copper wire in the finished product for any period of time? >>>Also, what do you think the black deposit on the copper wire may be? >>>Thanks, Phinneas
