A few questions and discussions are coming up about ppm. Here's my answers and comments on the questions I've seen:
Distilling? I'm a little concerned that the more *processing* we do to the stuff we make the less that is left effective. I've seen cautions about protecting your CS from not just light, but magnets and static charges as well, all in an effort to protect the charged particles. So I'm inclined to keep things as simple as possible. OTOH I have re-heated my CS to "bottle" it sometimes, and the stuff that comes out of the sealed bottles seems to have just as good measurable ppm and potency as before. I believe Reid, or Scott, or someone actually has boiled it down to a concentrate (I guess you'd call that reducing it, eh? <grin>). So the answer is probably yes, it can be done. The question I ask is, why do you need higher ppm? The silver will get into your body as well from an ounce of 30 ppm as 3 oz of 10 ppm, won't it? I'm making some more CS right now, and I'm trying to simplify things a lot and see how it works. I'm *not* heating it and I'm only going for 10-15 ppm. Current flow is never getting much above 8 or 9 ma with 3" of 12 ga silver wire in the water, 3/4" apart, at 30 VDC. With 25% starter from the previous batch, it's taking about an hour to get from a reading of 2 ppm to 15 ppm on the TDS-1 meter calibrated for salt. (That in itself suggests a little non-linearity in the TDS-1 readings at the bottom of scale.) I seem to be losing a few ppm from settling and filtering out of the visible particles, so it goes into the bottles about 12 ppm. Of course I don't yet have a solid calibration factor between salt and my CS, so the ppm, although controllable batch-to-batch, is not known with any great certainty yet. The product is *very* light straw color, almost colorless. This is quite different from the deep amber color I get when making it with hot water. I'll let ya' know how it goes! Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- 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: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
