The electrical setup Jill describes is fine, and her warning that the job finishes very quickly when using tap water is important if you are going to use her recipe.
But we have long ago reached a consensus that using distilled water -- and, yes, having to wait for 2 or 3 hours for our CS to be done -- produces a better product. If you use tap water, or the more common "pinch of salt" or "drop of brine", for more current flow from the start, you will make nothing but silver compounds until all the dissolved minerals are used up. Given what's found in tap water these days, do you want to drink silver chloride, silver flouride, silver nitrate, silver carbonate, silver arsenide, silver phosphate, or whatever other random selection of chemicals which will be present in trace or gross amounts? Personally, I would consider Jill's method fine for emergency use or if I had no source of distilled, deionized, or otherwise pure water. Just keep the concentrations low, the intake as low as possible, and find an alternative as soon as you reasonably can. Either method will work, and could save your life in an urgent situation. Most of us want to be a little more cautious about purity when we can afford to be. Thanks! Mike D. > Buy three new 9 volt batteries; should be identical. > > Buy two alligator clips (about 1 1/2 feet long) from Radio Shack, or > wherever. These are wires covered with plastic, and a metal clip at > each end. > > Get two silver sticks .999 pure or similar purity. Can be sticks or > flattened, but they should be about 6 inches long. > > Get a pint glass measuring cup (grocery store). > > PROCEDURE: > Snap batteries together with contacts facing each other. There is only > one way they can go. This will leave two leads free. Attach one > alligator clip to each free lead. Attach a silver stick to the other > end of each alligator clip. Fill the glass measuring cup almost to the > top with drinking water (not distilled as there are no ions to conduct > the electricity, and nothing will > happen, at least not for hours). Place the silver sticks in the > water, not > touching each other, taking care not to get the metal alligator clip in > the water (you don't want to make lead colloid!). One silver stick > will collect bubbles, and the other will exude a gray cloud. If this > doesn't happen pretty soon, review the above steps and correct anything > that deviates from the above instructions. Another reason nothing may > happen is that the water is too pure (too close to distilled). Use > another type of drinking water. Stand there and watch the process, as > it may only take 1/2 minute to 3 minutes to make the CS. When the > water is only slightly gray, take the silver sticks out of the water, > and stir the CS with the silver sticks. Do not stir with anything > else. Remove the alligator clips from the batteries. The batteries > may be stored snapped together, but if the alligator clips are left > attached, it will run down the batteries. Do not store anything wet > next to the batteries, or they will be corroded. Using the nylon > backing of a sponge, rub the silver sticks under running water to > remove the dark color. > > Either drink the CS immediately, or store the remainder in the dark. > This type of CS will be destroyed by light in 8 minutes, I have been > told. Therefore, don't make it under bright lights. I typically drink > it the same day I make it, and storing it in the cupboard until it is > gone. > > Best of luck, > > Jill > [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] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
