From: Simonsen, John Sent: Saturday, 26 January, 2013 16:39 To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: RE: CS>question about earthing material
I've been sleeping on an Earthing sheet for maybe a year now. It makes a huge difference. The downside is that I have found all the fabrics I have tried (Earthing fitted bottom sheet, Silverelle and several others from lessemf.com) lose their conductivity with use. If anyone knows of a fabric that lasts, please respond. The more gently you handle the fabrics, the longer they last. But they don't retain their conductivity forever. The fabric from Earthing seems the best and I can't find it elsewhere online. But it must be treated gently. The Silverelle is comfortable, but after a while it loses conductivity and even starts to turn black. I think the silver is being oxidized by body oils. I made a pillowcase out of it. It worked for about 6 months, but now it is dark where my head goes and very low conductivity. Another thing I've started doing is not washing the silver-containing fabrics very often. They are antibiotic, after all. Also, use a meter and check the connections. I had the grounding wire from Earthing.com go bad. John -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An older message from Marshall, “removing silver stains” dated 6 Jan 2013: I just discovered something that will remove silver stains within a minute or two. I have a countertop which is rather badly stained with silver from over the years. Although hydrogen peroxide can be used to remove new silver stains, my experience is that once it has sat a while, it tarnishes becoming silver sulfide. Silver is happiest with sulfur, so I had been unable to find anything to react with it a and produce a soluble silver compound. Unfortunately silver sulfide is 100% insoluble, so once you have the stain, it seemed to be there forever. I have applied hydrogen peroxide to these stains in the past for hours at a time. Well, last night I made up a few drops of activated MMS to put on a wart. A drop of it fell on the stained counter, and I wiped it up after about a minute. Right where the drop was, the counter was completely stain free, a nice yellow circle in a sea of brown/grey stain (counter is yellow). So I did some experimenting. Even if applied immediately after mixing the acid and sodium chlorite, it works very well. To check my theory that it was actually reacting with tarnish, I put a drop on a badly tarnished spoon, and the tarnish was immediately removed. However it also reacted with the silver making the surface look more like pearl than silver (might have formed a layer of silver chloride or simply roughened it up), but the black of the silver sulfide was removed almost immediately. This is what seems to be happening. The activated mms produces chlorine dioxide. ClO2 splits up producing both chlorine as well as oxygen. Although silver much rather unite with sulfur than with chlorine, sulfur likes the oxygen better, leaving the silver to make sulfur dioxide (which with water produces sulfuric acid), and the silver then reacts with the free chlorine: Ag + ClO2 -> AgCl + O2 AgS + ClO2 + H20 -> AgCl + H2SO4 The silver chloride, being slightly soluble, can then be removed with water. Now, I was working with MMS (28% sodium chlorite), and 50% citric acid solution, equal amounts of each. This likely will work with lemon or lime activated as well, but concentration will be much lower, so I expect it to take longer. The addition of vitamin C, and antioxidant might interfere as well, but I have not tried it and can't say for sure. Marshall
