If you make the CS very strong without cleaning the electrodes, more hydrogen bubbles form, more silver makes it to those hydrogen bubbles, gain an electron and turn into particles getting trapped in their surface tension whie making them conductive as they get close enough to touch each other so more hydrogen bubbles will form on 'those' hydrogen bubbles to trap more silver. ["grey fuzzies"]
When you remove the silver coated bubble formation from the water the bubbles tend to pop, transfer their surface tension load to the surface tension of the water and you get floaters. If the bubble formation gets thick enough it may detach portions of itself from the electrode but have enough bouyancy due to the hydrogen to float to the top and pop some of the bubbles...transferring part of the silver load to the surface of the water and some to other bubbles..which get heavy enough to sink. Some of these "chunkies" go up, some down and some up, then down and some just float around. [A "sparklie" is a small chunkie.] The hydrogen in the silver coated bubbles that reach the bottom eventually dissolves into the water and release a white 'cloud' that dissipates into the water identical to an "ion cloud" [It's really a particle cloud....you can't see ions at all] Eventually, floaters sparklies and chunkies just go away on their own and increase the TE of the water. Sometimes a little bit of white "dust" will be left stuck to the bottom as well. [silver hydroxide?] Floaters are only a few microns thick but have some weight which creates a depression in the surface tension of the water. They consist of silver particles held together by gravity like marbles in a bowl and 'look' a whole LOT worse than they are. It amounts to very little actual silver. Dragging a piece of paper towel across the surface of the water attaches those particles to the towel almost invisibly. ..or, just stir them in. Swapping the polarity of the electrodes just blows all that stuff into the water...no big deal, but looks sorta ugly ... for a while. I find the best way to deal with floaters, sparklies and chunkies is to just let the CS sit still for a while and decant. Ode At 10:07 PM 10/17/2004 -0500, you wrote: >> Re: CS>Is it really this quiet? GARNET >> >> * From: Garnet wrote: >> * Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:29:15 >> > > I make 10 ppm CS but you can use what ever concentration CS you have on >> hand. It would make it more effective presumable to use a higher >> concentration CS but I get floaters when I go higher. I have not tried >> running the CS twice to see if I can get it higher because 10 ppm seems >> to be effective. > >What is this about floaters and high concentration CS? >Why would this be? > >Dan > > >-- >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]> > >
