Welcome aboard, Adrian! You write: > I make it in a 850 ml jar, with 3 x 9 volt batteries, in series, but not > sure what ppm it produces , Phil reckons 10ppm is best, Not having a ppm > meter, cannot find one in NZ. I use two strips of 5 cm by 1 cm, by 0.2 > mm thick. Perhaps somebody can calculate for me what ppm one gets after > an hour. The 1st batch went golden and was presented to a friend after 4 > hours or so. After that one piece was blackish. The 2nd and 3rd batch > was an hour but has not gone golden??, nor was one piece blackish. I > mainly joined to find this out.
Well, you're making CS. It'll contain a lot of ions, some particles, and, depending on the purity of your water and whatever air or surface contaminants found there way into the brew cell, a few salts or other impurities. I am assuming you are using distilled water, of course. You are, right? <grin> If so, it's already as good as most folks use, and if you do nothing more you'll see nearly all the benefits anybody ever has. The golden stuff is probably greater than 10-15ppm and is starting to grow bigger particles. It could easily be as high as 20-25 ppm, but you can't really know without testing somehow. Still useful, but folks have developed tweaks to the process to keep the particles smaller. The clear stuff is hard to tell, but you'd be better off stopping after 2 to 3 hours, as the process starts slowly and builds exponentially, so it may have barely gotten going by one hour and may be very weak. The positive electrode, or anode, commonly turns black, either with some silver compound or other, or else as a consequence of the submicroscopic structure of the surface as it is being etched by the electrolysis. No problem. The fact that it didn't turn black on the shorter runs says the process had really not gotten going yet when you turned it off. If you let it run longer, you'll get a fluffy grey coating on the negative cathode that is silver being drawn out of suspension or solution and ultimately being wasted. It's either some compound of silver, and/or the pure metal, possibly embedded in a matrix of microscopic gas bubbles. The simplest refinement you can make to your setup is to add a milliamp meter in-line so you can measure the current flowing in the cell. Plotting current versus time you'll get an idea when the process really gets started, when the water gets saturated with ions and starts growing particles, and when it starts running away. You'll develop a good idea of what current reading is the best to stop at to get it where you want it. Again, it doesn't have to be precise, but you will have some consistency from batch to batch. The next simplest change you can make is to put a series limiting resistor in line with the cell to keep the current from exceeding, maybe, a milliamp or so. This will slow down the process a lot. It may take you overnight to make a batch now, but it'll keep the particles small and the ionic content as high as possible. That's how people make the stuff that stays clear and has a barely perceptible Tyndall effect. Is it better? Well a lot of folks believe it is. Not all, though. Beyond that, the refinements are for ease of use, greater precision, and, generally, pretty optional! (Though some will disagree with me! <grin>) > Also does anybody know for a fact that mixing CS with tap water is such > a sin? I've read this being repeated stated but never came across any > decent explanation for it. Pour CS into tap water and watch closely. You may see a brief, faint violet or lavendar tint, which goes away pretty quickly. That's all your ionic portion agglomerating into larger particles and/or silver salts. It'll still have some effectiveness, certainly, but I doubt as much as before. If you take the stuff in your mouth and swish it around, it'll complex with all sorts of things in your saliva that will serve to transport the silver through the mucous membranes and into the blood stream. Once it's in the stomach, any that reacts with HCl will be reduced in availablility, but even silver chloride has some solubility and may continue to contribute. I guess I think it's safer to give the body a crack at the ionic portion rather than throwing it away before it even gets into you. Now if you're just adding it to your pet's water dish or something, then go ahead. It'll keep the water fresher and still be of some benefit to the animal from the silver. > Also had toenail fungus, an oriental version, had it for 50 years, Had > some Silvazine - standard burn cream - mixed it with menthol in a > mortar, it changed radically in about 5 or so applications, so now will > have to wait to see whether it recovers. Had been using lamysil and > sporanox for years to no avail. That's a silver compound and it works > too. Now you should talk to some of our experts on mixing it with DMSO, and... well, there's a lot to talk about! <smile> Hope that helps. Again, welcome! Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- 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]>
