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The Art of Making Colloidal Silver:

There are three factors that will determine the quality of the colloidal silver that you make.

1) The water that you use. It must be distilled to a high degree of purity. You will need some way to check that the water you are using is pure enough. The distilled water that is sold in grocery stores in 1 gallon containers will generally be good enough. You will still need some way to check it. This can be done with a conductivity meter or by some method included in the design and function of whatever generator you use.

2) The purity of the silver that you use. You want silver ions and preferably no other metals. You want to make a solution containing silver ions, as they are proven to be of great benefit. There are many other metals, however, that can do you great harm. You must take every precaution you can to avoid taking toxic metals into your bodies. This is why you need to use only 9999 silver wire and insist on a certificate of analysis showing the impurities that are present. In the case of the highest quality silver, the largest impurity will be copper which is not bad in small amounts. This will be the case in silver that comes directly from silver ore that is refined directly. If you buy silver without an assay certificate it could contain scraps from manufacturing facilities that are alloying silver with any number of other metals. So it's not just a matter of it being 9999, but what is the nature of the other .01%. When you consider the fact that when you make colloidal silver the result is a liquid solution with silver in parts per million (PPM), it makes no sense to try to economize on this. If you consider making colloidal silver at strength of 10 PPM for example, 1 ounce of silver wire could make theoretically 100,000 ounces or 1500 gallons of colloidal silver.

3) The amount of time that you allow the process. Hydrogen will appear at the cathode (the negatively charged electrode, where electrons enter the water), and oxygen will appear at the anode (the positively charged electrode). Back in the days of the 3 9-volt battery and coins, you would wait until you saw a cloud of what you were told was pieces of silver forming in the water, and stopping the process soon after that. In reality, the cloud was form by hydrogen and oxygen micro bubbles and meant that the process was in a runaway mode. Disconnecting the batteries at that point would, if you were lucky, get you perhaps a five PPM colloidal silver solution. It would not keep its strength for very long as the larger particles would quickly collide with and absorb the silver ions. A few of us promoted the use of current limiting to prevent the runaway condition. Some noted that the higher resistance you used the better results you obtained in both higher PPM and stability. Some had tried every conceivable method of stirring to allow the use of a higher current in order to speed up the process. All of which efforts in this direction failed. The fact that for a given surface area of silver anode, only a certain amount of current was allowed. There is a region surrounding the anode called the Nernst diffusion area. To put it simply, it is a region that will only allow a certain density of ion's to exist before they agglomerate into larger particles. So for those of you with your own setups for making colloidal silver, try reducing the current and allowing more time.

Another item that you will find useful is a quality laser pointer. High quality laser pointers have a current regulating circuit which ensures that the output of the laser remains the same no matter what the condition of the batteries. The rated power is maintained until there is no laser action whatsoever, at which time the batteries have to be replaced. The laser pointer will enable you to see the generation of the small particles, as they are being made. This will occur after you have achieved the highest possible ionic portion; the ions are combining to form larger particles. In the days before we had laser pointers to use, we did not know whether or not we had made colloidal silver until a hue color appeared. The yellow hue is caused by the presence of particles in excess of 40 nm in size. It creates a yellow color because the particles block the blue part of the spectrum. If you subtract blue from the rest of the spectrum, you have red green that you see as yellow. The smaller particles are more desirable as they have more surface area.