Hello INGRID, Monday, April 7, 2003, 12:14:58 AM, you wrote:
<<SNIP>> First off, in order to make a "perfect colloid", you need to define the parameters of a "perfect colloid". Second, you can put a chunk of silver into water and let it sit for a hundred years, and you will still have a chunk of silver in water. The silver will not dissolve into the water. Silver is a noble metal. If, by some chance, something in the immediate surroundings put an electromotive force through the silver, and the silver was the anode, THEN something would happen. Yes, if you burn hydrogen in a pure oxygen environment, you will most certainly make water. And you will do so with quite an explosive force as well. Why go to all of the trouble? Distilled water is quite adequate. If, for some reason, you feel it isn't, you can always find a source of 18 megohm laboratory grade water. It IS pure water. There IS NO conversion of alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC). It would take a basic electronics course to cover this with you. To make it fairly simple, voltage and resistance determine current. To change the current flow, you need only alter voltage or resistance. Which brings us to our next point. Using water with ANY ions in it will lower its resistance, which will in turn, increase the current flowing through it at a given voltage. Besides, just what are those ions? Is there nitrate or nitrite present, which will give you the HIGHLY UNDESIRABLE compound of silver nitrate? Is part of it chlorine, which will form silver chloride? This is but ONE of the reasons it is imperative to use DISTILLED water. Besides, once you start your CS generator, you are immediately putting silver ions into the water. Your "CS" will be, in actuality, MOSTLY silver ions dissolved in water. While your quest for the "perfect colloidal silver" is noble, rest assured that there are many on this list who have devoted years of their life, thousands of dollars (or even many hundreds of thousands of dollars), and gallons of perspiration doing the same. Many of these people have a multitude of degrees in the sciences to boot. And, after all of this money, time, and effort,we still can't even fully agree on a few basic points, such as..... How do you accurately measure particle size? How do you determine ionic or particulate content? Which is more desirable, ions or particles? How small can you make a particle in a colloid and still have it remain in a stable state, such as for long term storage? Many people will give you an answer to the above questions, and the answers will be as diverse and numerous as the people answering them. Some things we CAN agree on, though. Such as, even the most horribly made CS is effective to some degree. No matter if it has particles large enough to be red (colloidal brickbats), or is mostly ionic, colorless and clear. I guess my best advice is to sit back, read the traffic on this list for a while, and ask questions. -- Best regards, Solar -- 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>
