Hi Victoria, I suspect the particles you saw are what are known as *sparklers* to people on the list. That is, they are the larger particles and the line you saw was the beam reflecting off the smaller particles. What we are striving for is uniform small particles. I think you ended up with too much current flow. My experience indicates less current flow results in smaller particles. Perhaps you can reduce the voltage on a batch as the current starts to rise and maintain a lower milliampere reading. Than shine your laser through the dispersion and see if the larger particles are present. I suspect they won't be there if you run low enough current levels. You should be seeing a uniform beam of laser light.
Trem ----- Original Message ----- From: Victoria Welch <vi...@oz.net> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 8:17 PM Subject: CS>Newbie comments - second batch - Ding! Good news methinketh :) > Hi All, > > Since I have been blatering on about this and busily being confused > and wondering if I got anything useful, I thought I would share this. > > The second batch ran over since I wasn't paying proper attention to it > and ended up with a current flow of 2.81 ma. > > After it sat for a while (and was stirred with some wooden chopsticks > :) the laser showed an obvious good line through the solution (not > *strong* but certainly easily visible) and visible particles (*very* > small. but obviously particles compared to the red line tracing through > it (more of a "cloud", meaning, I guess smaller particles)). > > I did some commercial CS a long time ago and had pretty much forgotten > about it until I took a slug of the new batch and *ding* I immediately > recognized the taste. > > By Jove, I think she has something here :-). > > Appreciate everyones help in getting going and especially the > encouragement! > > Take care, Vikki. > -- > Victoria Welch, WV9K, DoD#-13, Net/Sys/WebAdmin SeaStar.org, > vikki.oz.net > "Walking on water and developing software to specification are > easy as long as both are frozen" - Edward V. Berard. > Do not unto others, that which you would not have others do unto you. > > > -- > 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>
