In a message dated 8/29/2001 6:34:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
> Subj:Re: CS>Re: Hello > Date:8/29/2001 6:34:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: [email protected] (Robert L. Berger) > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</A> > To: [email protected] > > > > > Hi Bill, > > Things are as confused as usual. I have had some strange things happening > with > my HVAC ARC CS. > > I store the CS in the DW bottles. The run on 8/5 checked out as Ag = 15.4 > PPM > ans NO3 = 2.7 > When I rechecked the NO3 on 8/25 it was 18 PPM. > On 8/16 I made a 2 gal. batch at Ag = 12.8 and NO3 =2.34 PPM I covered the > jug > with a single layer of paper napkin and left it in the sunlight on my back > deck. I can't check the Ag ppm until about Friday as I am out of chiemiclas > but > the NO3 checked out at 16 PPM > > So on 8/26 I made another 2 gal. run the NO3 = 3.43. I put into two DW > bottles, > one capped tight and the other with a single layer of paper napkin covering > the opening. > 8/27 close bottle NO3 = 1.8; Open bottle NO3 = 8.28 ????? could be my > error. > 8/28 closed bottle NO3 = 2.16 Open bottle NO3 =2.34 > 8/29 closed bottle NO3 = 2.16 Open bottles NO3 = 2.7 > > On 8/28 I made two runs the only difference was that one had a Bosch plug > and > the other a silver "V" point 0.040 X 1/2" add for these two runs I added > Dry > Ice to my CO2 generator. Everything else held constant > Run #1 The Bosch plug run had 27 ppm of NO3. > Run #2 The silver "V" run had 8.1 ppm of NO3. > > I have never seen such high NO3 measuremnts!!!!! > So I made a 3rd. run with the "V"point but replaced the plate electrode (1" > x > 4" wet) with a 5" #14 wire and the NO3 is 3.78? > > Confused "Ole Bob" > Bob: Since you aren't monitoring nitrite, there could be some nitrite oxidation which will produce additional nitrate as time goes on. I know your tend to be a purest when it comes to eliminating as much nitrate as possible, but as I've said several times, you are using a shotgun to kill a gnat since, according to the EPA, the acceptable amounts of residual nitrate in drinking water are far greater than any conceivable amount of nitrate entering the body through CS ingestion, even if the nitrate to CS ratio were three to one which is definitely much, much greater than that found in any of your CS preps. Roger
