Hi JB, Enjoy and appreciate your valuable info you share with "us seekers"! Glad you needed a bit of assistance regarding resublimed iodine. Iodine is usually obtained from dried seaweed, burned and by chemically treating, the iodine is separated by sublimation. Iodine is a blue-black, metallic-appearing crystal, insoluble in water, but soluble in several other solvents; is quite volatile so must be stored in well-closed bottles, and by reason of its volatility it is usually purified by sublimation, hence the trade name of the best quality of iodine is resublimed iodine. From(Principles of Pharmacy--Arny-Fischeles). From Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences 17th edition: Iodine is one of the three best all-around antiseptics. It is active against bacteria, fungi, yeasts, protozoa, and viruses. Iodine may be used to "purify" drinking water. 5 to 10 drops of 2% iodine tincture to a quart of water left for 1 hr. is both amebacidal and bactericidal. Some communities use iodine in lieu of chlorine for water purification because organic matter has little effect to antagonize iodine, as it does chlorine, and carcinogenic compounds are not generated.
Years ago while camping with our 2 Eagle Boy Scouts and our 3 1st Class Girl Scouts, we often added Chlorox to a gallon of water or 1 Iodine tablet to our qt canteens to purify strange, untreated water--Very effective, but UN-tasty. My preference in 2004 is to use CS 10 ppm (1 oz. to a gallon water, shake, let sit 30 minutes and it's ready to drink & tastes like delicious drinking water--NOT Iodine or Chlorine. Recently when the City tagged our home as a result of broken water pipes in the area advising us to Boil our Water until further notice--we filled several jugs of water and added 1 oz. CS 10 ppm and had NO problems. If the writer of the Iodine article is brought up to snuff, I believe that he would join us in the use of CS. For years, I recommended that anyone with groin or foot fungus use Chlorox in the Rinse Cycle, allowing to soak for 30 minutes to kill the fungi that are in the underwear or socks or shoes and upon treating the affected body area, you would not become reinfected from the still infected clothing or shoes. It helped my FUNGUS CREAM II give better results. Thanks for this opportunity to share. Sincerely, _______________________________________ Richard Harris, 57 Year FL Pharmacist 448 West Juniata Street Clermont, FL 34711 www.rharrisinc.com www.myseahealth.com/reh http://healthandhealing.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan B. Britten [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 2:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>Sterile wash? Hi, Mike, I haven't the background to comment on the calculations but don't doubt that your conclusion is correct. I posted without comment simply because I thought some members might be interested; glad you were sufficiently to challenge the claims. We need such expertise. Thanks. Related topic: I read in a great Reader's Digest hardcover book on a "back to nature" theme that the best, simplest water purification kit for hikers and survivalists is a small, clear screw-top jar with five grams of resublimated iodine crystals. I have never heard the term "resublimated" and hope our pharmacist Mr. R. Harris can enlighten us. Bottom line: one bottle of these crystals can be used ONE THOUSAND TIMES. Fill up the jar with any old water and shake it. Three tsps. of shaken water can purify a quart in 20 minutes. Remarkable, I think. Seems to be a modest supply of these crystals would last the average family for decades. They are available only from a pharmacy I read. Interesting. I want some of these crystals in case of emergency. JBB Samsung is a Korean company, incidentally. On Sunday, Aug 22, 2004, at 00:24 Asia/Tokyo, Mike Monett wrote: > CS>Sterile wash? > From: Jonathan B. Britten > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 05:04:56 > >> Silver ions in washing machines: > >> http://www.samsung.com/Products/WashingMachine/Bigwash/ > >> WashingMachine_Bigwash_H1245AS.htm > >> JBB > > Hi Jonathan, > > Quote from the article: > > "Bigwash H1245AS Silver Nano Technology" > > "Like a bath of beauty for your fabrics, Samsung's Silver Wash is > an advanced washer with superb germ killing capabilities. Imagine > 400 billion silver particles dissolved in water to make a super > cleaning solution that affects your clothes on an almost molecular > level. its purification ability of 99.9% and lasting antibacterial > action will redefine your idea of immaculate." > > > http://www.samsung.com/Products/WashingMachine/Bigwash/ > WashingMachine_Bigwash_H1245AS.htm > > Sounds more like hogwash. 400 billion silver ions weigh 7.16E-08 > milligrams. If the washer holds 10 gallons of water, it would have a > silver concentration of 1.89E-09 ppm, which is below the limit of > detectability. The Mercury calculations are shown at the end. > > Another problem is trying to preserve silver ions in dirty, soapy > water. There are so many contaminants it is highly doubtful an ion > would last longer than a couple of nanoseconds. > > The Japanese apparently favor silver for its antibacterial > properties. But this approach clearly has no possible benefit. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Here is the Mercury solution. This shows the value of Mercury in > solving problems without having to rewrite the equations each time. > This is slow, highly error-prone, and difficult to troubleshoot. > > Here are the conversion factors: > > Cou = I * sec ; total number of Coulombs > esec = I / 1.60217733e-19; electrons per second > gm = k * I * sec ; Faraday's equation > isin = esec / sqin ; ions per sq. in. per sec > isnm = isin / 6.45e14 ; ions per square nanometer per sec > k = 107.868 / 96485 ; Coulombs required per gram of silver > lt = 3.785 * gal ; convert gallons to litres > lt = ml / 1000 ; convert millilitres to litres > mg = gm * 1000 ; convert grams to milligrams > ml = 29.57 * oz ; convert ounce to milliliters > mnt = 0 ; minutes > phr = ppm / hrs ; ppm per hour > ppm = mg / lt ; 1 ppm is 1 milligram per litre > sec = hrs * 3600 + mnt * 60 ; convert hours to seconds > uAin = 1e6 * I / sqin ; current density in uA per sq in > > These are the variables: > > gal = 10 ; water capacity > hrs = 1 ; dummy calculation > Ion = 400e9 ; number of silver ions > Ion = esec * sec ; electrons per second * number of seconds > sqin = 2 ; dummy calculation > > Here is the Solution: > > Cou = 3600*I > = +6.40870932000000E-08 > I = +1.78019703333333E-11 > sec = +3600.0000000000000 > esec = 6.24150636309403E+18*I > = +111111111.111111 > gm = 4.02471679535679*I > = +7.1647888991010E-11 > k = +0.00111797688759911 > isin = 3.12075318154701E+18*I > = +55555555.555556 > sqin = +2.0000000000000000 > isnm = 4838.3770256543*I > = +8.6132644272179E-08 > lt = +37.8500000000000 { = +757 / 20 } > gal = +10.000000000000000 > ml = 29.57*oz > = +37850.0000000000 > mg = 4024.71679535679*I > = +7.1647888991010E-08 > oz = +1280.01352722354 > mnt = 0.0000000000000000 > phr = ppm > = +1.89294290597120E-09 > ppm = 106.333336733337*I > = +1.89294290597120E-09 > hrs = +1.0000000000000000 > uAin = 500000*I > = +8.9009851666667E-06 > Ion = +400000000000.00000 > > Best Wishes, > > Mike Monett > > > -- > 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]> >
