I see that there has been some confusion about what I was trying to do with these experiments and the posts. I suppose that this is because I tacitly assumed something and did not spell it out...
The fact that I used copper wire is basically irrelevant. This was only for getting an idea of the amount of current that would flow in the different water types. I'm willing to bet that if I had used silver wires, the currents would have come out about the same. This is not an experiment for colloidal copper making. It is a kind of a back-of-the-napkin calculation for determining how much colloidal silver (or silver compound) one would make using an unregulated system and non-distilled or city water. Any actual CS making would involve at least a silver wire as the positive electrode. Dan You-all wrote: I have found that copper doesn't make a hydrosol and won't exceed around 3 uS conductivity. It's a true metallic colloid and will oxidize into a blue grey sediment in a few weeks. ode At 06:11 PM 11/15/2005 -0800, you wrote: <excerpt> Hi Dan, Interesting work. I have seen similiar work for silver using math to arrive at a PPM designation. But my question is how can we account for the formation of oxides i.e Ag0 or Cu0? Tomorow I will order the chenicals to go with my spectrophotometer to measure the Cu+1 ion. I will have to find a standard to measure against as I have for the silver ion. Next question for what and how do we use copper hydrosol. "Ole Bob" -- 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: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
