Problem is too much sodium chloride [sea water] has contaminanted the wells. Now they're purifying sea water with salt water? Wow! Ode
At 11:00 AM 1/6/2005 +0900, you wrote: > >I read yesterday that 200,000 liters of sodium chloride have been >distributed in Indonesia; this is enough to purify water for one >million persons, the article said. I am totally unfamiliar with >sodium chloride, but this is what is on the scene. > >I still want to get a supply of those resublimated iodine crystals >mentioned below, but I have not yet stumbled on a source of them. > >JBB > > > > > >On Thursday, Jan 6, 2005, at 09:43 Asia/Tokyo, himagain wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> I clipped this from this very list some unknown time ago - very >> fascinating in the light of the Tsunami tragedy. >> ------------------------------------------- >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> -------------------------------------------- >> What a good idea to use our contacts to get this AND CS information to >> some of the aid agency people? Anyone? >> >> BTW: SUBLIMATED: Having passed from the solid to the gaseous state >> (or vice versa) without becoming liquid. RE-sublimated? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Himagain >> >> >> -- >> 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]> >> > > > > >-- >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 > > -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 12/30/2004
