I am unable to access the Thomas Millar article cited here. It must have been removed from the Infocom server. Does anyone have a copy I can borrow??
Dean -----Original Message----- From: Frank Matzka [mailto:fmat...@senet.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 4:37 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Voltage & Current. I know there was a couple of articles recently about how much silver is in a CS solution based on calculations relating to current in the production process. These articles referred to current but not voltage. Can we assume that voltage is not relevant in any way to the production. (sorry for my electrical ignorance). I ask this because I've seen various devices described running from 1 X 9 volt battery, 3 X 9volt batteries, plug packs supplying 30 volts etc. The Thomas Millar article (http://www.infocom/~thomil/silver.htm) suggests that the particles are produced by "mechanical" action, the current knocking off small particles of silver as it passes through the solution. If so then presumably the higher the current the bigger the particles. And this is where the colour comes into it (apparently). Another article states that the smaller the particles the lighter the colour. Clear for best/smallest, light yellow for acceptable, then onto to brown, green and gray for much bigger particles. However. Thomas Millar says that the longer you take to produce a solution, the more likely you are to form chemical compounds with any of the impurities or salts in the solution. As I understand it pure distilled water is not conductive and at least a tiny amount of sodium chloride is required to allow current to pass thru it. So there will always be at least some silver chloride in with the colloidal. Apparently most silver compounds are described as being a pale yellow colour so I suppose it's hard to destinguish between optimum silver particle size and the amount of impurity in any given solution. I also presume that a larger electrode surface area would produce any given ppm concentration faster than a smaller one. eg a 1cm strip of silver would be faster than a 12 guage wire. Is this correct? And if so how can we calculate the difference? Does the conductivity of the solution change as the ppm goes up? I ask this because Bob Lee mentioned in one of his posts that his current starts low and slowly rises as it goes along. Sorry to barge in with so many questions without so much as an intro from me :) But you guys have convinced me CS is worth a go and I'll be building a generator as soon as I clear up the above. Best regards ....... Frank -- 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> -- 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>
