Tom, What was the color of your solution before and after adding ascorbic acid? Did the color change after the precipitated occurred? Thanks, Steve N
-----Original Message----- From: poast [mailto:po...@prodigy.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:10 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Making 100% colloidal EIS Hello Marshall, Some additional information... My EIS ends up with a PH of 6.5. The solution that I added the ascorbic acid to ended up with a PH of 3.5. I know that some reactions are sensitive to PH, so an idea would be to pick a PH target and add only as much ascorbic acid as is needed to reduce the PH of the solution to the target value. I used a "pinch" of ascorbic acid in 250 ml of EIS. I have measuring spoons that measure a drop, smidgen, pinch, dash, and tad. In liquid measurement a pinch is 0.3125 ml. I just measured a pinch of ascorbic acid and it came in at 0.31 grams. Too much? Too little? Normal reaction? Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Dudley" <mdud...@king-cart.com> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:37 PM Subject: Re: CS>Making 100% colloidal EIS > That is some good information. I was wondering if the addition of > ascorbic acid would cause 1 and 2 atom colloid, or if it would > precipitate out on the particles that are already there, that indicates > that at least some of them precipitate out on other particles making the > rather large. The other possibility would be that the remaining > ascorbic acid made the solution acid enough to make the colloid > unstable. I need to test and see if I neutralize the free acid if the > same thing happens. > > Marshall > > poast wrote: > > Hello Marshall, > > > > 3 days ago I put a pinch of ascorbic acid in some EIS and have stored this > > solution in a white 250 ml HDPE bottle. I took the lid off this morning and > > noticed that some of the silver had precipitated out. I shook the bottle > > and it went back into solution. > > > > There wasn't a large quantity, but against the white bottom it was evident > > that there was some. > > > > I am using the SG6. My EIS comes out at around 15 uS, then settles down to > > about 11.5 uS in a few days. > > > > Tom -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/silver-list@eskimo.com/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com>