At 01:41 PM 11/18/2003 +0800, you wrote: >From what I have read since joining, I understand the following: > >Although it has been stated that light is an enemy to CS, which should >be kept in coloured glass bottles, others find that light, and even >plastic bottles, are not a problem. I take it that others who have >not experienced any problem may stick with coloured bottles, glass, >and minimal light "just in case" (I guess even light must have a >frequency that might do something in certain conditions?) ## Won't hurt anything
> >Is everyone agreed on the need to keep CS away from electrical >appliances and their electromagnetic influences? ## No I've even put CS in a microwave and it didn't seem to do anything to it but heat it up. snip > >There are some new ideas and suggestions which I will grapple with >later, but I'd like to recap on temperature and mixing. > >I have gone back to preparing with cold water, though I wonder whether >having hot water might mean the fluid moves by itself to an extent as >it cools. ## You'll get a thermal downdraft effect that works until the water cools. That works pretty well for short time batches but fizzles out later when the stirring does the most good. I am also mixing it with a wooden stick (actually one of >those things sold as Scottish porage mixers). I know it would be a >while before I would get anything with a propellor type mixer, as I >understand some to be using, but have been thinking of getting an >aquarium aerator. I've understood people to be using one of these >cylindrical "stones" that the bubbles come out of all over. I can't >help wondering what these are made of, and whether they might add some >known or unknown ingredient to the fluid. Would something pumping >water through a plastic pipe without an aerating device be expected to >work, ie, just the bubbles from the tube. Would the action of the >bubbles alone move the water enough? ## Use a bubbler without the aerator with a single small stream of bubbles. That is enough. > >Experiences and opinions? > >The benefit to me of using hot water would be that the shorter time >makes it slightly less likely that I would forget I was brewing and >leave it too long, and end up with big bits of floaty silver and a >mirror-bottomed jar. ## If stirring is sufficient, you won't get the deposits on the glass at all. If it's too vigerous you might get sparklies, fluffy deposits on the electrodes that fall of and floaties. The idea is to just keep the water moving enough so 'hot spots' [high concentration zones] don't form around the electrodes but not so fast as to blow stuff onto or off of the electrodes. Ode > >Thanks >Rowena > >Thanks to all who keep their Subject Lines up to date as the >discussion progresses to make it easier to find relevant posts later. > > > > >-- >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: [email protected] > >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
