Another "Know it all" from a "Know nothing" Tom -------Original Message------- From: [email protected] Date: Monday, March 10, 2003 13:09:07 To: Silver List Subject: Re: CS>Dr. Peter l. reynolds A very self-serving presentation. If this guy had any sort of ethics, he would mention what conditions would be correct for home-made Colloidal Silver since it's obvious from reading that these conditions could be met for home-made Colloidal Silver. Click a Red Title to Access a Section
MANUFACTURING What's Wrong With Home Made Colloidal Silver? You know, the idea is just wonderful! Colloidal silver is so useful, it would be great if we could easily make up a batch whenever we wanted to. All we'd need is a simple off-the-shelf unit, a readily available catalyst to turn the distilled water into a semiconductor, some distilled water, and vavoom, there's the colloidal silver. Just think, you wouldn't have to keep paying high prices for colloidal silver and you could make as much colloidal silver as you wanted. The idea's great, if only it were as simple as all that. OFF-THE-SHELF UNITS All of the off-the-shelf units made available to the public, so far, have some serious design flaws. In fact, there are so many flaws, we'd better go over each major flaw area, one at a time. Alternating Current (AC) verses Direct Current (DC) - With direct current, only one of the two plates of silver is giving off silver particles because the current is only flowing one direction. With alternating current, the direction of the current changes back and forth, making it possible for both plates to give off silver particles, alternately. Most commercial manufacturers who make the super-Tyndall effect colloidal silver (If you'd like to read more about the super-Tyndall effect, click What Does Colloidal Mean?.) use alternating current so that both silver plates contribute silver particles. Unfortunately, virtually all of the off-the-shelf home units are battery operated, i.e., using DC. This means, at best, they are working half as efficiently as their AC counterparts. Voltage and Amperage - One of the really sensitive variables affecting the quality of colloidal silver is the amount of voltage between the silver plates as well as the amperage (a measurement of the amount of current). Battery powered off-the-shelf home units typically use a nine volt battery. These nine volt batteries usually only provide about nine volts (big surprise, right?). Commercial manufacturers often use ten to twenty times that amount of voltage in order to produce the desired product. A low voltage, like nine volts, can often only pull off the plate very small silver particles, smaller than the minimum 5nm (nm = nanometer = one thousandth of a micron = one billionth of a meter) colloidal limit. As a result, such suspensions are predominently molecular, and can, therefore, promote the build up of a silver toxicity (You may want to click So, What's Colloidal Silver? to read more about the importance of the colloidal limits when it comes to silver). Battery operated, off-the-shelf, home units usually provide very low amperages (Amp), as well. A fraction of one Amp is often the maximum amount of current used in home units. Commercial manufacturers typically use several Amps of current with their higher voltage equipment. Since the amperage and voltage play such a significant role in the quality of the product, it raises serious doubts whether the quality of colloidal silver could possibly be the same, despite the huge differences in voltage and amperage between the off-the-shelf, home units and the commercial manufacturers. It's probably fair to assume the colloidal silvers are NOT the same. There is a strong reason for the low voltage and amperage output of home units. If you think about it, it's the issue of safety that's the real reason for the low voltage and amperage. Making available a unit which supports high voltage and amperage would make it virtually impossible to obtain product liability insurance. One person electrocuting him- or herself on a nifty high powered home unit would be devastating. Working with liquids around high voltages and amperages is begging for disaster. Therefore, there is virtually no choice but to provide only low voltage and amperage units where electrocution is minimized. Unfortunately, such safety constraints significantly effect the quality of colloidal silver. Plate Shape and Orientation - Of equal importance with the type of current, the amount of current and the voltage is the shape of the silver plates and how they're oriented with each other. Commercial manufacturers use flat plates. The flat plates parallel each other giving as much active surface area to the opposite plate as possible. The distance (the gap) between the plates in commercial units is usually very small. In contrast, most home units use plates which are actually cylindrical rods. This means there is very little active surface because of the cylindrical rod's shape. Further, with these rods, the distance between the plates (the gap) changes as one moves around the cylinder. In addition, the overall gap between the rods in a home unit is much greater then that between the plates in commercial units. As you might expect, the mass of the silver particles which are drawn from the widely gapped home unit rods is much smaller. Again the design of the home units promotes the development of a molecular suspension rather than a colloidal suspension. READILY AVAILABLE CATALYSTS If there were nothing wrong with the off-the-shelf home unit as far as design, the next hurdle, the catalyst, might really be the biggest problem. You see, the substances used in the home as a catalyst really aren't that great when it comes to colloidal silver. For example, if one uses just regular table salt (NaCl) or sodium chloride as the catalyst, one always runs the risk of splitting the salt molecule into its constituent elements, sodium and chlorine. Chlorine happens to be very toxic when swallowed. Some even falter when it comes to high dosages of sodium. Thus, in a colloidal silver home unit, with its tendancy towards a molecular silver suspension, adding chlorine will give you a wonderful molecular solution called silver chloride (AgCl) which, if taken in large quantities, can poison you quite nicely. Commercial manufacturers use other catalysts which can ONLY be used in a commercial installation with the proper laboratory equipment. The companies that sell these catalysts will not sell it to you at all if you're going to use it in a home environment. Strict laws make this absolutely necessary. As a result, the catalysts used to make the super-Tyndall effect colloidal silver cannot be used in the home. Instead, only poor substitutes are available. As a result, even with a home unit designed properly, obtaining the right kind of catalyst like commercial manufacturers is still impossible for home use. DISTILLED WATER Of the three areas necessary to make colloidal silver, obtaining some distilled water is the least problematic. You can obtain distilled water at many locations. In a way, it's too bad picking up a well designed home unit along with the necessary catalyst is NOT as easy as picking up the necessary distilled water. Today, most commercial manufacturers of colloidal silver use water that is even better than distilled water. Usually, they use water that has been demineralized, has been run through a reverse osmosis machine, before it's distilled once or twice. Some are even using injectable quality water. Again this helps provide a clean, safe colloidal silver. RECOMMENDATIONS At least so far, the off-the-shelf home units are not designed well for manufacturing a high quality of colloidal silver. Some of the design flaws can be rectified quite easily. However, the problem of safety is a major hurdle which must be addressed before home units can provide super-Tyndall effect colloidal silver. Anything which doesn't exhibit that profound Tyndall effect means a high percentage of the suspension is not colloidal. With silver, non-colloidal leads to toxicity. When it comes to a commercial grade catalyst, the home manufacturer is the loser. It is just not available. The catalysts which are available in the home just don't do the job very well and may even contribute to the toxicity of the end product. So the catalyst issue is still a real blockade to home colloidal silver production. So, the bottom line to home production is, DON'T!! Check out where you can buy the super-Tyndall effect colloidal silver and compare prices. Hopefully, not everybody selling colloidal silver is filled with greed. The right stuff makes all the difference in effectiveness AND safety. This is the end of this Chapter. You might want to click Can Science Prove Something Is True? to see the next chapter titled, THEORIES. 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