Most of it vanishes on it's own.
All of that stuff 'looks' a lot worse than it is. The glass magnifies it by many times and it's really very little material. If you can get it all on on a piece of paper towel, often , you can't even find it on there when you're done.
A 'floater' is only one atom thick..virtually nothing.
A 'sparklie' is maybe 99.99% hydrogen bubble...or a piece of dust or a grain of pollen. [Same with a 'chunkie' which is just a big sparklie.]
Black oxides, by far the majority of actual solid material and unavoidable to make, are inert...and mostly stay stuck to an electrode.
Ode
At 07:16 PM 12/5/2004 -0500, you wrote:
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As I'm reading all these replies about "floaties," "mud," and "sludge," I'm wondering what the consensus is about such "debris."<<<<
>From time to time, I will have silver floating on the top of my CS when it's finished, usually when I haven't cleaned the electrode fuzzies as well as I probably should have prior to making a batch (this is with the Silverpuppy unit). The CS can be very clear, but I still may have some floaties. Not much to speak of, but you can see it. I used to strain the CS through a coffee filter when I would see them, but now I've gotten lazy, and I just pour it into my bottle as is.
Should I not be doing that?
Rene'
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