If there's a cycle that allows ionic silver to dry on the parts..or if
you ever run it dry, it will oxidize and make black stuff.
 It's harmless and pretty much inert but can be hard to clean up.
 The particles won't form oxides.
Ode

At 02:54 PM 11/30/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:37:58 -0500, walt <kort...@skybest.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi Folks: Got the Walgreens Vaporizer, had to make two pints of CS to hit
>>level of CS that activates the metal electric prob to the Sonic Speaker to
>>make mist. It sat around acouple days after tryng the mist in my lungs etc.
>>
>>Showing the unit somedays later when I opened the top and looked in, there
>>was 2/16" inch clumps of black (?) particles on the base of the plastic
>>holding CS fluid, maybe twelve total. I stopped using it hoping someone here
>>had a answer to what that black chunky stuff was, and how it got there?
>
>What are you using to make the CS??
>
>It sounds like you've got a lot of particles in your CS, instead of it
>being mostly ionic.  Ionic silver won't put much black stuff in the
>bottom.
>
>(The black stuff is most likely silver sulphide, but could be silver
>oxide.)
>
>-- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF
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