Roger, Did you use distilled water or tap water?
Ivan. > -----Original Message----- > From: rogalt...@aol.com [mailto:rogalt...@aol.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2001 13:12 > To: silver-list@eskimo.com > Subject: CS>How Do Silver Coins Keep Water Fresh? Will We Ever Know? You > Can Help > > > In a message dated 5/22/01 2:45:48 PM EST, fr...@strsoft.com writes: > > << Subj: Re: CS>Scientific Debate & "One Upsmanship" > Date: 5/22/01 2:45:48 PM EST > From: fr...@strsoft.com (Frank Key) > Reply-to: silver-list@eskimo.com > To: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Roger, > > It is safe to say that you have concluded from your experiment > that silver > does not dissolve in water? > > Frank: Yes > > If that is the case, what could one deduce from the old stories > about the > silver dollar in the water barrel? > > Could one surmise that contact with the metallic silver is what > caused the > water to stay fresh? > > > Frank: Unfortunately, we were one tiny step away from being able > to conclude > that metallic silver (from a silver coin) is what causes water to > stay fresh > because I was unable to confirm that the 92.5%/7.5% silver copper > alloy that > I used had the same composition as coinage metal. For example, we > found that > for the lower grade silver alloys, copper, or zinc, or both > probably corroded > into DW. So I can't say for sure that coinage metal doesn't have > some other > germicidal metal that could corrode into DW. However, if my 92.5% silver > alloy is, in fact, the same as coinage metal then I believe your > statements > are correct. Roger > > > > frank key > >> -- 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...@eskimo.com>
