## Let's define a bit better Colorless = no color but presents a TE indicating the presence of colloidal particles Clear..often used interchangeably with colorless..= no color and no TE [pure ionic] Color= contains particles large enough to refract a given color but also contains the smaller ranges of particles in varying ratios having to do with depth of color [pale to dark yellow, for instance] per a given PPM. The deeper the color, the greater the percentage of larger particles to smaller colorless ones.
The point was that even a deep yellow or brown colored CS includes both ions [clear/no TE] and larger particles [that eventually stick to glass] and colorless small particles [that don't..the TE does not diminish in storage with a colorless CS nor does the glass become silvery] TE does diminish as the yellow particles become stuck to the container in storage but once the sticking process is complete, the TE ceases to diminish and the left over CS is colorless. When you see a silvery coating it is due to plateout of a massive amount of metallic silver onto the container. I have only seen this happen 'in process' as a track becomes established on the container and is fortified with more and more silver plating onto the track rather than being suspended in the water or plating onto the opposite electrode...not after storage. Stirring completely eliminates plateout onto the container. [But you still get some plateout on the other electrode] Ions don't stick to anything and still remain ions. When they cease to be ions, they can re-form themselves into a range of particle sizes and colors. [or particles without color] depending on how they "stick" to each other [and/or something else] and become "not ions". A pure ionic sol displaying no TE tends to stabilize into a mix of ions and particles. A TE may develop over time. The higher the PPM, the more this is bound to happen, the greater the TE and the more likely a color will develop if some other process such as hydration doesn't prevent it. At what point this happens and to what extent is, so far, undetermined and variable. It seems to be more a process that varies with conditions than a total predictable shift in state. Ken >>> >>>In CS what you see is not always what you get. Even yellow CS contains >> 90% or >>>more ionic. You cannot see that. There is no doubt that yellow CS is very >>>effective, the only question is if the effectiveness is from the 5 to 10% >>>particles that are making it yellow, or the 90 to 95% ionic. >>> > >If you are unaware of research relating to the effectiveness of yellow >compared to clear ionic silver- can you state where you find that figure you >just used, i.e... 5-10% as being ALL that is yellow in a batch of yellow >c/s? >>>As far as I know there has been no really good research on that issue. >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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> >> > > >
