CS>ppm meters From: Info Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:26:28 http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/m78940.html
> Mike Monett wrote: >> According to Ivan Anderson, Mesosilver is made of oxides. This >> makes sense, since your tan color is similar to diluted silver >> hydroxide. >> Elemental silver is gray or black in solution. You can prove this >> by adding pickling salt to 36uS cs to make silver chloride. The >> dispersion is white, but it turns dark gray after exposure to >> light. > And what size particles are creating this color and in what silver > concentration? It varies all over the place. There is no control over particle size. The original concentration measured 36uS as stated above. >> Mesosilver is the wrong color to be silver particles. > These words of wisdom are from "scientists" who are using > conductivity meters to determine silver content, cannot measure > particle size, etc... You have got to be kidding. We ignore the oxides since they have no biological effect. We are only interested in the ion content. From your own reports, and data published by Ivan Anderson and Trem, the conductivity is related to the concentration of silver ions, where 1uS = 1ppm. Some products in your list do not correspond, but they are easy to spot and discard. Since contamination affects the conductivity, a reasonable approach is to calculate the expected uS reading using the Faraday equation, measure the conductivity with a PWT, and perform a salt test for an overall confirmation. This is quite satisfactory for home use, since the variation betwen batches is quite large. > The color of Mesosilver has nothing what so ever to do with the > color of material the particle is made of as you suggest. > Mesosilver absorbs visible light at a wavelength of 400 nm. The > apparent color is the complement of the absorption wavelength. > The absorption wavelength, thus the apparent color could be made > to be any color of the visible spectrum by slightly altering the > ionic species of the dispersant. > Such a minor alteration of the ionic species would alter the zeta > potential and the thus the dispersion properties and in doing so > would change the apparent color but not change the composition of > the particles at all. As mentioned above, the size of the oxide particles is not controlled and varies a great deal. Since you state the particle size determines the color, the oxides in the photos should have all the colors of the rainbow. They do not. The density changes, but they are a uniform tan/brown color: http://www.utopiasilver.com/images/gen3.jpg and http://www.silverpuppy.com/resource/ionpud1.jpg Similarly, the characteristic yellow tint that cs develops is not affected by the size of the particles. The white color of silver chloride is not affected by the size of the particles. When it is exposed to light, it turns a uniform dark gray. According to your statement, both conditions should exhibit a wide range of color due to the variation in size. This shows again that Mesosilver is composed of silver oxides. The tan color is characteristic of oxide particles, not the gray of elemental silver particles. > When the water is evaporated from Mesosilver what remains is a > thin film of metallic silver, not silver oxide. This rather easy > experiment requires only that one be able to recognize metallic > silver when one sees it. Fill a 250 mL beaker half way with > Mesosilver, cover to keep dust out, let sit until the water > evaporates. I repeat my offer to perform this test and post the results. Please send me some. My address is: 349 King St Apt #3 Midland Ontario L4R - 3M7 [... snipped] > Frank Key > Colloidal Science Lab. > www.colloidalsciencelab.com Mike Monett -- 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]>
