Dear Michael, You ask: > What is in the other 1% of the silver wire?
If you're buying "fine silver" or 99.9% pure wire, the question should be "What's in the other 1/10 of a percent of the silver?" So realize up front that the total impurities in fine silver are no more than .1% of the total metal. If you dissolve that in distilled water to make, say, 10 ppm colloidal/ionic silver, you've further diluted the impurities to something like .001 x .00001 = .00000001 or .01 parts-per-million *maximum* contaminants from the metal. You'll have more and more dangerous contamination from impurities in the distilled water, the air, that piece of pie you ate for lunch... than from the silver metal of your electrodes. The answer to your original question, if I remember right, is that the major contaminant of silver is usually copper. There can be traces of a bunch of other things, some of which would be nasty, but the concentrations will be so low as to be negligible. Hope that puts it into perspective for you! Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- 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>
