Try using a drop of honey on the tip of a toothpick stirred into the heated
water before inserting the silver electrodes.  I've been doing that for
several years and get about a 10ppm solution, pale yellow in color, in about
10 minutes.

Fred wrote:

> > >> Is it possible to make 5 or 10 ppm CS by the gallon
> > >> without the sludge using low voltage?
> > >>
> > >> Bil
>
> The process of generating colloidal silver is the same as
> the plating process - ions are released and travel to the
> negative electrode where they collect an electron and turn
> back into silver. You can not stop that process! The fact
> they are sludge instead of nice shiny silver is that conditions
> are not right for fine crystal growth - normal silver plating uses
> cyanuric acid to provide good conductivity of the solution and
> to assist in forming fine grain crystals. What you get are more
> like snow flakes, weakly bound/random crystals!
>
> See my other post why the HV AC process avoids sludge
> formation, by blasting the sludge forming metal particles into
> the solution as quickly as formed. This unfortunately makes
> metallic particles, not ions of silver, but at least no crystals!
>
> f...@health2us.com (took a day off from work today!)
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