Surfactants---as in dishsoap-- weak havoc on some colloidal systems. James Osbourne Holmes a...@trail.com
-----Original Message----- From: Harvey Flatbush [SMTP:ha...@iomet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 7:14 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Water /bad cs question At 03:31 PM 11/18/1999 -0700, you wrote: >Hey everyone -- I just made a batch of cs with my usual setup and some >distilled water which made clear cs with a strong tyndall in about 1/2 hr a >few weeks ago. I immediately capped the bottle of water after using it and >it has been sitting untouched for three weeks. The new batch of cs that I >made following the same procedure (no salt, room temp, wipe electrodes and >stir every 15 min) is a grey tinged milky cloudy solution that is scary to >look at. It started to fill the glass with milky solution within minutes. > What could cause this? >How does water go bad in a few weeks? >Does that mean that the water I used before was already probably >contaminated and I was unwittingly making silver compounds? >?????? >So I broke down and ordered a PWT meter -- no more guessing if the water is >decent for me. >Katarina I suggest the glass you used for the second batch may have been contaminated somehow. Perhaps the dishwater soap wasn't thoroughly rinsed out. Try another batch but rinse the glass and electrodes with distilled water beforehand. Harvey -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
