Actually, concerning the animals, Mike, I wouldn't give them anything that I wouldn't take for myself. They tend to be smaller and maybe more adversely affected in that respect to oddball compounds. Plants, etc ???
John -----Original Message----- From: M. G. Devour [mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:04 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Source for recipes? To put the distilled water issue in perspective: Early on people advocated using a "pinch" of salt or a few drops of brine solution to their DW as a "starter" to speed the production of CS. Plenty of folks, including me, used this and saw positive results with no known cases of harm. The drawbacks are the likelihood of making silver chloride in small quantities, which is not likely a serious problem due to it's relatively low toxicity and solubility, *and* that the particles tended to be larger due to the high current that resulted. Distilled water is said to make smaller particles, but it takes longer and forces you to deal with some plating out of "fluff" on the negative electrode, either by periodic wiping or some form of stirring and/or polarity switching. You don't, however, make other compounds with this process, unlike when using salt. Now, if you think of using tap water, stream water, water from the rain barrel, reverse osmosis water, or a pinch of sea salt... Whatever dissolved salts and other impurities you introduce to your process are available to make compounds of God knows what. It could be miniscule amounts, but how much is too much? Another thing to keep in mind is that the reaction would go very fast, being done within a few minutes, using anything other than DW. Run too long and you'll have mud. For topical, household, or animal use, just about anything could work. But for human consumption, DW is the safe bet. In an emergency or survival situation, I'd risk using whatever water I had rather than let somebody die of an infection, for instance, but I'd get back to distilled as soon as possible. Hope that helps. Be well, Mike D. > RO water 'can' work sorta OK but it's really chancy and far from > consistant. > > Stick with the DW. > Perhaps you or another list member might comment on whether I might > consider my reverse-osmosis water system (new and well-maintained) as > an equally viable alternative to using distilled water for making CS? > * Not only NO, but hell no! > > * If there is a Walgreens in your area, buy their DW [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org 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>
