Take some of the CS, add an equal amount of distilled water and a few drops of H2O2. It should clear and be good to use.
Dan On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Marshall Dudley <[email protected]> wrote: > 13 ppm is the solubility limit of silver oxide. Silver hydroxide converts > to silver oxide, and back again, so this sets the limit to how much ionic > silver there can be in distilled water to 26 ppm. That means that you > reached saturation with the ionic part. Any additional amount added has to > either convert to colloid, or settle out. Over time 25 to 50% of the ionic > will plate out on the colloidal particles. The silver content remains the > same, but a TDS reading will drop accordingly. I would suspect that you had > 30 ppm or higher of silver content. Adding H2O2 to this will create a > colloid containing lots of silver oxide particles. > > Marshall > > Dorothy Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >> Well actually sol, I *did* have the generator running for about six hours >> because I had forgotten that I still had it on manual. But when I tested it >> with the TDS meter it only read 13 so that I took to mean it was approx >> 26ppm. 2 days later, it read 7 which I took to mean about 14ppm. I think I >> will dump it and start again, but it is a waste of 500mls of my precious DW. >> dee >> >> On 22 Sep 2009, at 23:29, sol wrote: >> >>> Garnet wrote: >>>> >>>> The stabilizers in the H2O2? >>>> >>> I wouldn't think so. I've only ever used 3% H202 from the grocery store, >>> and the murk doesn't happen often. It seems like if it was additives in the >>> H202, it would always go cloudly/murky. It doesn't. >>> But, I've had that murky result when the CS was really strong. I would >>> not have expected it to go murky if it really was only 14 ppm. But remember >>> silver particles do not register on conductance meters, so maybe the CS was >>> a lot stronger than that. >>> sol >>> >>> >>> -- >> >> >> -- >> The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. >> >> Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org >> >> To post, address your message to: [email protected] >> >> Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] >> >> The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... >> >> List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> >> > >
