Since silver ions form oxides when the water evaporates and leaves filters brown, perhaps filtering part of a batch that has been treated with peroxide and part of the same batch that has not, will reveal something interesting. If it's mostly metallic silver being formed..from whatever source, the staining should be less distinct. If oxides are dissolved 'and' being formed as the water evaporates, the staining should be much browner.
Since I decant as needed rather than filter and have for years, I don't have any used filters around to check or make any observations on to get clues built up over time. I'll have to start from scratch. Then treating [with peroxide] the stains made by filtering at various times with various additions , might reveal something. One thing that might be a clue is that batch I made using peroxide as a 'starter'. It absolutely made silver particles..big and shiny ones, almost big and shiny enough to shave by. [well, that's a exaggeration, but they would have made for a good metalflake paint job and were very pretty like a snow scene paperweight when shook up.] They eventually degraded into black oxide balls on the bottom and a yellow cast to the water that wasn't there before but it took several months...maybe a year.. sitting in a South facing window sill in a clear glass jar. Ode -- 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]>
