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From: "Norton, Steve" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:35 AM
Subject: RE: CS>CS testing and Hot water for making colloidal silver
The following are only my experiences, my methods and using my equipment,
which includes a magnetic stirrer, and will differ from others.
Some questions others on the silverlist might be able to answer:
** What is an acceptable measurement accuracy? +/- 10 percent??
-I'll leave that one alone.
** They say you cannot adjust the ppm of an EIS solution by adding
distilled water to dilute it. Can you blend two different EIS solutions
to create a specific ppm?
-In my opinion this is a question which you don't need to consider
concerning 'blending to create a specific ppm' Beth. To my knowledge it's
all about particle surface area, and this would apply to particles, not
ions. ppm is weight ratio to a given quantity of liquid when speaking of
CS, 1 gram of silver to 1 litre of liquid, or 1 ounce to 1 gallon,(example
for description purposes only!!). By adding water to an existing solution
you would effectively be reducing the surface area the particles would
cover, but still have the 1 gram of silver, (ppm), only now it would be in 2
litres of liquid, (again, just an example for description purposes!!).
** After generating EIS, is there a minimum/maximum period that you
should wait to let the solution stabilize before a final measurement
with a TDS meter?
-My experience is that some of my CS can take anywhere up to a week to
stabilise. It all depends on whether I part my hair on the left or right
side when I get up in the morning <g>
Quotes:
[Some websites say to use very hot water, some sites say to use room
temperature water]
-I use room temperature. Have played around a little with a warmer to heat
water while brewing but found it to be too inconvenient for me, I like to
keep it simple, and I don't particularly want particles, I prefer ions to
particles.
[I am confused about the best temperature for making SMALL particle
colloidal silver]
-I'll leave this 'particle size' one to the electronics experts, but I have
found that if I produce anything over around 10ppm the solution sometimes
turns from clear to colour during stabilization time frame, which I believe
signifies ions 'sticking' to existing particles making them larger.
I prefer to call this stuff EICS, (Electrolytic or Electro-Ionic Colloidal
Silver), as you have both particles of silver in suspension, (colloids) and
ions present but due to the high proportion of ions to particles I believe
it more accurate to refer to CS as a 'solution' rather than Colloidal
Silver, the CS term is mostly for 'convenience' sake if you like to me.
Well that's my input Beth. Everyone here will give freely of their
knowledge and experiences, I'm not overly 'expert' on the subject but know
enough to satisfy me.
Cheers...N.
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