Ode: The Rawleigh company (GoldenPride) has sold a ceramic water filter purifier with silver impregnated ceramic filter with a carbon core for decades.
Every month or so, you screw the cover off and brush away the accumulated crud. It even removes most of the carcinogenic clorine. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ode Coyote" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:26 AM Subject: [personal] Re: CS>AgCl in water purifiers & question > Reid > > It looks like the 'establishment' is doing the silver impregnated ceramic > thing under the trademark AGION. > Look up their patents? > Also look up NSA water filters.. They've been doing it since the mid 80s. > Ode > > At 05:47 AM 12/9/2003 +0530, you wrote: > >Everybody, > >I've been meaning to mention that I had a set of tests run, eight silver > >chloride, ceramic purifiers, for the presence of silver in the filtered > >water. Checking on solubility, the coef. for silver chloride is > >0.000089 (I think), and with some calculation it appeared possible that > >just under 1.0 ppm of AgCl is in solution in 100 ml. of water. But for > >the tests, only two of the eight candles indicated silver in the > >filtrate, and those just barely detectable. If I recall correctly the > >lowest detectable silver is 0.01 mgs. and what we showed for the two > >candles out of eight was 0.02. We should test again over time, liter by > >liter. > > > >I begin to understand that solubility concerns a maximum amount of a > >substance that can be present in solution, very much the fledgling > >here. So I have a couple of questions: How would the solubility work? > >Considering the AgCl is probably in individual molecules or small groups > >of molecules, do these individually disolve within the on coming > >water? And wouldn't it be that there are two or more solutions? One is > >in the container of filtered water and the other one(s) are inside the > >ceramic? In my curiosity (and ignorance?) I imagine that we could > >measure the amount of AgCl within an individual pore of the ceramic, and > >this should relate to disolved AgCl within the filtrate. > > > >But how is it the filtered water could contain about 1.0 ppm of AgCl, > >while the tests indicate this is at undetectable levels? Am I making a > >short matter long? > >Reid > > > > > > > >-- > >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]> > > > > > >
