Think about it.
If CS kills virtually every pathogen known to man on contact, how could the
CS not be sterile despite you not being sterile?
If it doesn't, why bother with it at all? [it does ]
The biggest bugaboo is "chemical" contamination and that can get touchy,
but usually isn't too bad.
Don't worry unless something weird happens. Then go about eliminating
that factor with detective work...or just blow it all out the window.
Generally a change of water and a good rinsing does the job.
Sometimes you can't control your environment, but you can almost always
change it till you don't need to.
Electricity and silver don't change much, water does. Look to that first.
Some variation in batches is both reasonably unavoidable and acceptable.
ode
At 04:31 PM 9/14/2006 -0400, you wrote:
Hello, Ode,
As you know, I am new to CS (3 months), and have learned a lot from you
and several other list members. I have read many opinions about CS
contamination and durability, and from what I conclude I assume that
simply working with reasonable care and cleanliness should be enough to
have a good quality home product that should last at least for many months.
I have never seen any of you mention the need of working under strict
laboratory conditions, with permanent sterilization of containers,
electrodes, utensils, etc., use of sterile latex gloves, hermetically
closed working environment, etc. Of course very clean hands are not
sterile, electrodes that are polished with ScotchBrite tissue and cleaned
with an unused paper towel are not sterile, a freshly emptied bottle from
last batch is not sterile, dust and lint that are floating in the air and
falling all over us and the batch we are making are not sterile either,
and as I have understood from you and others we don´t need to be paranoic
about many microbes that end up inside our CS batch.
As long as we use high quality distilled water (I use steam bi-distilled,
de-ionized water employed for laboratory analysis) and have an adequate
process that yields a good quality product I understand that we should not
worry about it lasting enough.
In using CS directly from a bottle my technique is very similar to the one
Mike Devour and family use: I hold its neck with my hand, lean my thumb
below my lower lip and just pour the liquid inside my mouth without
touching the bottle with it. These bottles that are used for direct
drinking are washed and boiled before filling them again, but the ones
where we keep our stock of CS are just refilled once they are empty.
If I am wrong please correct me. I want to learn more every day.
Thank you.
Carlos
From: Ode Coyote <odecoy...@alltel.net>
Reply-To: silver-list@eskimo.com
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: CS>How long does it last?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:14:07 -0400
EIS/CS doesn't have a "charge" [as commonly promoted as ionic charge ]
after a few hours.
Once all the ions find the anions made at the same time, it's over all
charge neutral and particle repulsion is presented by weak Vandervals
forces, not "ionic charge". Being extremely chemically active, it's not
likely that many, if any, "free ions" exist after a few hours.
What ions get stripped off in vivo and -become- ionically charged
-again-..and what that does, is a subject for many guesses.
It is, however, generally stable on the shelf for years if only pure
water is present.
In the presence of other substances, it's not very stable. Ions strip
easily.
Ode
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