On another topic: The group consensus has long recommended only pure distilled water for making CS. This is for safety sake and so you can be sure of what you are making.
If you add salt, baking soda, or other chemicals, or use tap or other "normal" water with dissolved minerals in it, you *will* make silver compounds of various sorts until the contaminants or additives are used up. In fact, you will likely make nothing *but* those silver compounds, as it's common for the impurities to be present in far greater concentration than what you're trying to achieve of silver. In addition, if you're using such impure water with a simple generator with no way to limit the current, you will indeed make large particles that *may* not be as safe or effective in the long run, plus the process will "run away" very quickly. You will have to stop your process within a few minutes at most, or else risk making hazardous silver "mud" that is of such strength that it has been known to cause argyria in people who have abused it. I agree with Terry that virtually any CS is "good" CS, in that it's better than having nothing. Certainly in an emergency or survival situation or less developed conditions, it's acceptable to use whatever can be found that is reasonably safe, provided you don't over-cook it and make the aforementioned unsafe silver "mud." Also, using silver electrolysis to sterilize water makes perfect sense, but please do not consider it the same as making CS! If you are in a more typical situation where distilled water is available, please use it. We can help you learn how. 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]>
