Greetings Erna, Making sure you get an answer amid the spirited debate over the scientific details... <ahem>
> I understand from a previous question, about heating CS, that this is > not advisable. As I am making my own CS since last week, I am still in > the middle of experimenting. For instance someone advised me to use 500 > ml cold, and 500 ml heated (not boil) water, so that the total of 1 > litre would be around 60 degrees Celcius. This warm temperature would > make a better CS I was told. Uptil now I got a cristal clear, colourless > quality of CS by using sterilised - only cold - water from the chemist. > But when I warmed half a litre and poured it with the cold half a litre, > the endresult of the CS was light yellow, not cristal clear colourless. > Is it right to conclude that heating part of the water is no good idea, > perhaps because of mineral parts from the kettle? I can give you a few observations on this: Yes, if you're going to heat part of the water, do not use a metal container or one that has had anything else in it. Easiest to do would be to put the water in a clean bottle and heat *that* in a pan full of hot water... sort of like a double boiler. Anything you use to make CS in should be very clean... If you used soap, then rinse it several times in very hot water, then follow up with at least 3 rinses with distilled water. You only need a bit of water per rinse, and swish it around. Most often, you don't do any more cleaning between batches than another distilled water rinse. I don't know how vital it is to heat the water. Please let us know what type of generator setup you're using to make your CS, and what the recipe or directions say. Then we'll be able to give you specific advice for your process. > Another question: what sort of quality is CS with a light yellow colour? > Is it only good enough to water the plants for instance, but not good > enough to ingest? Plenty of us have used (and consumed) light yellow CS. It'll still be plenty good, just might not be as good as some other batch will be. Hope that helps. 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]>
