Yes, I should have said whatever the name for the meter is, rather than what it measures.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Dan Nave <bhangcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you mean don't bother with a PWT meter. > > Dan > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:40 PM, D Glover <mothman...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Asif, don't waste your time with uS meters except for testing the purity > of > > your water, as they were only designed for that purpose, and nothing > > more, they cannot in any way measure ionic content of silver sol or be > used > > to infer any value for ppm of silver ions in a sol through > extrapolation by > > some mathematical means. No matter how you play with maths you will not > get > > a proper answer. Rather, standardize your method of manufacture (for some > > tips please see my essay on the manufacture of silver sols at > Mothman777's > > Blog') > > Make some 20 ml specimens and submit those to a professional lab > (university > > labs are cheapest), they will dissolve all the clusters of ions into > single > > ions with the addition of nitric acid, then a fine vapour of this is > > aspirated under pressure into an argon plasma flame at a high temperature > > and the colour of the spectrum will tell you accurately what you have > made, > > but bear in mind that 10 ppm might all be in a small number of a few > > thousand clusters (for example) or might be in trillions of clusters. > > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Asif Nathekar <asifnathe...@hotmail.com > > > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have been doing some more reading which has got me looking for a > >> resolution, namely what uS do you consider to roughly figure out the > PPM. > >> I know the reason why a typical ppm or uS meter would not give a reading > >> due to the ions which we do want to measure not being very measurable in > >> terms in electrical conductance. > >> But it there a rough method to measure from the stuff that does conduct. > >> What I am therefore asking is if my uS meter says 10 uS what ppm of CS > >> should I consider that to be. > >> I have so far been halving the value so that I would have said that > was 5 > >> ppm. This was from information I received from other posts. > >> Kindly help shed some light in this matter for me. > >> Cheers > >> Peace to all > >> Asif. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> 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?subjectunsubscribe> > >> 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> > >> > >> > > > >
