9999 is completely and utterly unnecessary. 99.98% is pure enough for the home brewer. Considering the amount of 'impurities' in that 0.02% which a person/people may ingest on a daily basis, that 0.02% in negligible, as long as there is no lead in it. How many home brewers will want, or need, to purchase 9999 silver? I suggest not too many, I suggest 99.99% of the people brewing this stuff in their kitchens won't be, they will in all probability, or should be, using at LEAST 999 silver. Sure, if they want 9999, then go for it. Assayed, yeah, sure, mine is assayed at 99.98%, with no lead content, the rest in the remaining 0.02% I don't care about.
The reader can pick the bones out of all the rest in Arnold's post, but take particular note of the last three lines...LOL. N. ________________________________ From: abela...@atlasnova.com <abela...@atlasnova.com> Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2019 3:02 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS>The Art of making Colloidal Silver / Electrically Isolated Silver That is why we use only 9999 silver wire and insist on a certificate of analysis showing the impurities that are present. In the case of the highest quality silver, the largest impurity will be copper which is not bad in small amounts. That will be the case in silver that comes directly from silver ore that is refined directly. If you buy silver without an assay certificate, it could contain scraps from manufacturing facilities that are alloying silver with any number of other metals. So it's not just a matter of it being 9999, but what is the nature of the other .01%. When you consider the fact that when we make colloidal silver, the result is a liquid solution with silver in parts per million (PPM), it makes no sense to try to economize on this. If we consider making colloidal silver at a strength of 10 PPM, for example, 1 ounce of silver wire could make theoretically 100,000 ounces or 1500 gallons of colloidal silver. The third factor is the amount of time that we allow the process. Hydrogen will appear at the cathode (the negatively charged electrode, where electrons enter the water), and oxygen will appear at the anode (the positively charged electrode). Back in the days of the 3 9 V battery and coins, we would wait until we saw a cloud of what we were told were pieces of silver forming in the water and stopping the process soon after that. In reality, the cloud formed by hydrogen and oxygen micro bubbles and meant that the process was in a runaway mode. Disconnecting the batteries at that point would, if you were lucky, get you perhaps a five PPM colloidal silver solution. It would not keep its strength for very long as the larger particles would quickly collide with and absorb the silver ions. A few of us promoted the use of current limiting to prevent the runaway condition. Some of us noted that the higher resistance we used, the better results we obtained in both higher PPM and stability. Many of us, including yours truly, tried every conceivable method of stirring to allow the use of a higher current to speed up the process. All of my efforts in this direction failed. I could not get around the fact that for a given surface area of silver anode only a certain amount of current was allowed. There is a region surrounding the anode called the Nernst diffusion area. To put it simply, it is a region that will only allow a certain density of ions to exist before they agglomerate into larger particles. So for those of you with your setups for making colloidal silver, try reducing the current and allowing more time and let us know the results. The above is the first post in the thread that I started on the following forum: https://www.goldismoney2.com/threads/the-art-of-making-colloidal-silver-electrically-isolated-silver.61973/ This thread was started five years ago and has 378 replies and 38,000 views. No commercial activity is allowed on this forum. All are welcome to participate. No one is going to try to get you to buy anything from anyone in this thread. Its sole purpose is to promote the safe and effective production of colloidal silver by a person in their home. Abeland1Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10
