As you all know, I've been making this stuff for a number of years now but discovered something 'out of the box' the other day.
On inspecting a stored batch I found it milky with extremely strong TE, and the storage vessel had a dark spot in the centre on the bottom. Obviously much more particle content with the strong TE. I decanted solution through a coffee filter {which I have never had the need to do before, and as it turns out didn't need to this time as nothing was left behind to my recollection} and wiped the bottom of vessel clean before returning solution to the same vessel from whence it came. This batch had probably been in storage for a month. I checked it the other day and that dark spot was back? I repeated the aforesaid procedure, minus the filtering. Checked again a couple of days later and that dark spot had returned yet again - What the...??? This most recent observation leads me to believe there are other dynamics and forces at work here of which I don't savvy. Why, or how can that dark spot reappear after cleaning the storage vessel not once, but twice before, with days between each cleaning? My conclusion: There are dynamics and forces at work with the home produced product of which not enough information is available in the public domain, well to be perfectly frank, none I have found worth reading. Plenty concerning the so called "Colloidal Silver" but nothing I have found relating the predominantly ionic silver solution as is made in the kitchen using LVDC? Upon my most recent observation I am encouraged to ask...1. Why that dark spot appeared in the first place when it has never happened in all the years I have been making this stuff? 2. Why does it appear in the centre of my storage vessel and not be evenly distributed over the entire bottom of storage vessel if it's fallout or if gravity has taken over and pulled excess particles out of solution {why there should be excess particle content anyway escapes me}? And most importantly or most intriguing, 3. Why does it keep reappearing while in storage? All hypotheses and/or suggestions will be considered <g>. I used to check the DW prior to production but haven't done that for some years now, it was always between 1 and 3 KCl uS. It's so annoying when one can't find information related to the stuff we make <grrrrr>, all "Establishment" information revolves around that danged "CS" and its relatives. N.