Isn't this where experimenters got into argon flooding - or some inert gas
- to eliminate such problems?
At 08:29 PM 7/15/06 -0400, you wrote:
sol <[email protected]> wrote:
> alchemySA wrote:
>> Home-made colloidal silver contains no silver nitrate)
> I believe the above statement might not be strictly accurate, as
> homemade HVAC colloidal silver probably does contain silver
> nitrate, per my memory of posts from ole Bob. I think that is why
> he gave up on it after much work on it? Someone correct me if I'm
> wrong. Anybody have a better memory than me?
>sol
Hi sol,
As far as I recall, HVAC can make various nitrous oxides, some of
which are toxic. I'm not sure if any nitrates are generated, which
would be needed for nitric acid, which would be needed to make
silver nitrate.
We would need a real good chemist to sort this out, but I think it's
pretty safe to say nobody uses HVAC for homemade cs any more. The
ion concentration is too low - maybe less than 3 nines. Everyone I
know who was using abandoned it long ago.
One company may still use a special HVAC generator where the
electrode is above the surface of the water and forms an electric
arc. Frank analyzed their product and posted the results on his web
site. I recall it makes about 20ppm, but I don't think Frank
measures any nitrogen byproducts. I have the patent around somewhere
but can't locate it at the moment.
One thing I remember clearly is the patent stated the operator had
to continuously adjust the spacing of the rods, and that it was
fairly difficult to see the small arc. This means there would be
large variations in product quality as the operator became fatigued.
This seems like such a waste of effort when we can make equal or
better ion concentration with LVDC, with no risk of unwanted
nitrogen products.
I still have two flat silver electrodes Ole Bob gave me to do
comparison tests with 12 ga wire. He had used them for HVAC
production, and you can see etching along the water line where the
high voltage caused some arcing. I was thinking of firing them up
this weekend to see if there was any change in performance with my
new conductance plotting process, but it looks like the ozone
machine will burn up all the available time.
Regards,
Mike Monett
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