If you want to use a starter for a batch to make it go quicker, I recommend using some CS from the previous batch.
Marshall Reid Harvey wrote: > Ode, > I'm thinkng you may be correct. But do I get a constant voltage, even > where initial conductivity is near zero? Perhaps I could start with a > tiny amount of salt or soda, enough to get about 1.0uS. But if I end up > with only about 100 ppm of silver, to be as economical as we would need > to be I should perhaps forget about the distilled water, perhaps going > for rain water -when- possible. > > If I end up using tap water, ~150 ppm I'll get real mud. But is there > likely to be anything in this that is a problem? After all, it's piped > water that has had some treatment for physical chemical aspects. Then > again, all the minerals in the water may prevent getting very far with > the reaction. Perhaps I could then take the samples to a lab to check > for the presence of silver, but if I remember correctly in atomic > absorption the test is for the presence of ionic silver. > > Or I could weigh the electrodes before and after, then assume all the > mud to be compunds of silver, but having had physical chemical tests, > this would be compounds that would be harmless within a filter. I guess > this is a rhetorical question. Do I make sense? I'm sure the answers > are out there, just waiting to be grasped. > Reid > > Ode Coyote said: > If you're not concerned with particle size at high concentrations, and > apparently you're not as you seem happy with a red result, going with > constant voltage along with the run away problem will definitely be a > lot > faster than using current controls. > > However, it's not a long shot to wind up with a brown muddy emulsified > mix > that turns black the next day when the current gets really high. If > you're > just going to sinter all that into clay at high temperatures, black > might > not be a problem. > > Ode > > -- > 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>
