Ideally, it is probably better to not have the silver touch the glass since you may get more plating or something, but the instructions were meant to minimize the less significant details in order to make a simple set of instructions. I never actually had a setup where the electrodes touched the glass sides, but I know if the wires are too close to the bottom, with no stirring, you get residues and sometimes plating on the bottom of the glass which need to be removed by scrubbing, or with Hydrogen Peroxide.
I think Ode sent a post quite a while back about the benefits of stirring that mentions something about this, maybe he would chime in. Something about Nernst diffusion layers and scavenging oxygen from the glass, etc, but, you do not need worry about this or even about stirring in order to make a simple CS that you can use. As you get familiar with the process you may want to get more elaborate. You might try some sort of canning jar where the opening is of smaller diameter than the main container, so you would not have this problem. If there is no water where the electrodes touch the glass, there certainly wouldn't be any problem. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Kirsteen Wright [mailto:kirsteen.falcons...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:39 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Simple setup and (hopefully) clear instructions for making Colloidal Silver On 7/25/07, Dan Nave <na...@comcast.net> wrote: > > 4. Hang the two silver wires in the glass so they hang from the edge > of the glass. The wires should be on opposite sides of the glass. Is it ok to have the wires touching the glass? I don't know why, but I thought they shouldn't touch it and I've been going into contortions to keep them away from the side. This would be much easier Kirsteen -- And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions. -- (Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay) -- 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: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
