I wanted to jump in here briefly and tell you what an engineer friend of mine discovered with CS that was "started" with a very mild saline solution. He fed two similar petri dishes of bacteria CS, one solution of which had been "started" with salt and one without. He discovered that the salt-started CS was highly inferior to killing the critters.
The experiment was repeated at least 5 times. Five out of the six times my friend did the experiment, the non-salt CS did a vastly superior job of killing bacteria. However, he DID find that tiny amounts of baking soda "started" the solution without compromising the microbe-killing ability of the CS. I like to make my initial batch of CS by heating the distilled water first. I heat it in the pyrex measuring cup in which it's being made, and place it in a pan of water like a double boiler. I do this to avoid the possibility of metal from a pot leeching into the CS water. Then, with subsequent batches, I use some already made CS to "start" the solution. Regards, Nina Silver, Ph.D. dedicated to world healing and social change visit my website http://www.Heart-of-Healing.com -- 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]>
