Hi Joe, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe *" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 21 December 2000 23:02 Subject: CS>2 questions
> Hello listers one and all, > I am back to pick your brains! > > I have 2 questions: > > 1) If a Cs solution is for eg 20ppm, this means 20 parts silver to every > million parts water, right, well, questionis this...how many parts water are > there in say a 10 ounce glass. really what I want to know is how many actual > parts of silver are there. If there were 1 million parts water there would > be 20 colloids of silver, if 10 million water then 200 colloids silver..am i > on track here? Parts per million is actually a ratio of weights. So 20ppm is equivalent to 20mg per Litre (1kilogram or 1 million mg). PPM says nothing about the size of the parts...there may be 20 parts, 1mg each, or huge amounts of very small parts. To know how many parts or particles there are in a glass of water you need to know the size and hence weight of each particle. If 10 oz = 280mls then there is 5.6mg of silver in the glass. > 2) while brewing cs, one silver "electrode" goes blackish.. what is this > substance and is it from this silver wire that the colloids come or the > other "cleaner" one? > The anode (positive electrode) will turn black (deep purple) and have a light powdery covering. This is a result of the physical dissolution of the electrode. It may contain some silver oxide, but very little at neutral or basic pH. I never wipe this coating from the anode. On the other electrode (cathode) a grey sludge like or feathery build up can occur. This is silver ions or colloids which have been in solution, plating out onto the negative electrode to which it is attracted. This sludge is the major cause of large particle contamination when it becomes dislodged. > Thanks heaps! > Joe Regards, Ivan. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.219 / Virus Database: 103 - Release Date: 05/12/2000 -- 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: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
