Dean Woodward wrote: > > I tried the "milk test" as well, and my results were exactly the same as > yours. My CS tested 15ppm on the Hanna WP-1, and I used one teaspoon in a > half gallon of milk. Perhaps this is simply too little silver, or too much > milk. > > Dean >
Hi all, I'm the person who did the original milk test. The big difference I think is in the concentration. I used two double shot glasses ( of the liquor variety ) filled with milk. To one glass, I added one eyedropper of CS. My results were completely unambiguous. The untreated milk was thickly curdled after ~36 hours while the CS treated milk was still thin, had no odor, and was happily consumed by the cat. I leave it to you to do the calculations on diluting 1 teaspoon of 15ppm CS with a half gallon of milk. I believe it would be far, far too dilute to have any biological effect. Remember that at the microscopic level the CS is being taken up and bound by the bacteria so if there isn't enough CS to keep the pathogenic bug population below some threshold then you are going to get spoilage. Just a gut feel but if you're going to test with volumes on the order of a half gallon then I would start by trying maybe an ounce or two of CS and going from there. An interesting approach might be to heavily dose the milk to the point where no spoilage occurred in a particular "normally spoiling" time. Then cut the dose in half and try again. By doing this iteratively and maintaining a reasonable test protocol, same temp, same light, same ppm, etc, it seems to me that a fairly precise volume of a fixed ppm CS could be determined for a fixed volume of milk for a fixed time. A measurement conversion handbook might be helpful in calculating the dilution factors, e.g. how many teaspoons in a half gallon. The next step is a big leap, but this might be a starting place for discussion on the volume and ppm CS that might be needed to place a biologically effective dose into a particular volume of blood. Anyway, food for thought. Please post the results of any experiments. Time permitting, I'll press on in the same vein myself. Regards and luck to all. Doug -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
