Increasing TDS in start water causes increasing currrent, and can cause
larger particles.  Marx says 0.8 PPM TDS is optimal for his HVAC process.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Windsor <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, May 13, 2000 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: CS>Silver - an article


>My experience has been that it depends on the quality of water used.
>For example I distill my own water and have never had amber or yellow
>CS, mine has always been clear.  Yet people who use the same unit and
>have purchased commercial distilled water have told me their CS is amber
>in color?
>
>Blessings
>Ted
>
>James Allison wrote:
>
>> Personally?  I've always liked and agreed with what Peter A. Lindemann
>> says about color: "There has been a fair amount of controversy in the
>> public literature concerning the appearance of the "yellow" color. A
>> lot of well meaning people have told me that "yellow is bad", "silver
>> isn't yellow", "yellow is sulfur contamination", "yellow is iron
>> contamination", and lots of other things. I finally found what I
>> believe to be the answer to this question in a book titled Practical
>> Colloid Chemistry, published in London in 1926. In the section on the
>> "Colours of Colloidal Metals", sub-section on the "Polychromism of
>> silver solutions" on page 69, I found the following statements: "The
>> continuous change in colour from yellow to blue corresponds to a
>> change in the absorption maximum of the shorter to longer wave-lengths
>> with a decreasing degree of dispersion. This is a general phenomenon
>> in colloid chemistry illustrating the relation between colour and
>> degree of dispersion." This section goes on to describe the colors
>> that show up in a wide variety of colloidal metal solutions.
>> Interestingly, they ALL have a yellow phase. For true
>> "electro-colloidal" silver, the particle size range that can appear
>> yellow is .01 to .001 microns (10 to 100 angstroms) because that is
>> the size of silver particle that best absorbs the indigo light,
>> leaving only its inverse color, yellow, to be observed. The final
>> transparent-yellow appearance only shows up after the particles have
>> become evenly dispersed." Yours in health,
>> James Allison ---------------------------------------------Allisons
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>>      ----- Original Message -----
>>      From: [email protected]
>>      To: [email protected]
>>      Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 9:05 AM
>>      Subject: Re: CS>Silver - an article
>>       Sounds suspicious to me.  Mine is crystal clear.
>>
>>
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