subject: Colloidal Silver Generators For Homemade Silver [print this page] Colloidal silver generators for use in making homemade colloidal silver are a very interesting, yet tricky technology. In order to make a proper colloidal silver solution where the majority of the silver in the liquid, at least 85%, is ionized and suspended in water, one has to monitor the process pretty carefully. This article will cover the pros and cons of using your own home colloidal silver generator, possible cautions to look for, and general knowledge about how the process works. After reading this information, you'll be more equipped to decide whether or not you want to use your own generator, or whether you'd just like to buy premade colloidal silver from a bigger distributor.
Either way, it's still going to be a bit expensive. Buying a generator and the silver rods or thread you'll need isn't terribly cheap. And while making your own silver in bulk is cheaper than buying individual bottles, there's something nice about the high quality standards that the bigger companies employ. I don't want to discourage anyone from purchasing and using a colloidal silver generator, but I definitely want to inform people of just what they'll be getting themselves into.
Colloidal silver is made by passing low voltage electricity through silver rods or thread suspended in pure water. In order to correctly dissolve the silver from the source and then suspend it in the water, the electric current has to be a low voltage. This causes silver to slowly strip away from the electrified source, ionizing it and suspending it in water. An ion is just a particle that has either a positive or a negative electrical charge. As this happens however, the water slowly becomes more conductive and the process begins to speed up. This causes larger particles of silver to break away from the source, these particles not being ionized, but rather, just chunks of silver floating around in the liquid. They don't have the electrical charge, and therefore aren't true silver ions. Once the silver source is depleted, the silver ions will remain suspended and dissolved in the liquid. In order to be a true colloidal silver however, at least 85% of the silver in the liquid must be ionized. That's where the difficulty comes in.
Listed below are two of the biggest pitfalls of using your own colloidal silver generator, and also a few tips on how to overcome each pitfall.
1. It's Difficult to Really Know the Strength and Concentration. The largest con of using a colloidal silver generator is that without special machinery, a person never really knows the state of the liquid. Without costly equipment, a person cannot really gauge the concentration of the liquid, the ppm, or parts per million of the silver ionized in the solution. Even if you always use the recommended amount of silver in the correct amount of pure water, slight variations can cause differences in the amount of actual ionized silver, verses regular, unionized silver particles in the liquid. In order to overcome this problem, many people use what's called the Tyndall Effect to figure out how much unionized silver remains in the solution. Using a laser and shining a beam through the liquid, the undiluted silver particles will reflect the light, whereas the ionized, diluted particles will not. In a solution that's perfectly ionized, the water should look normal and clear, as if no other chemical were present. As you continue to make your own colloidal silver, the tyndall effect will become more and more handy. Look it up if for more information.
2. Particle Size. One of the things many top distributors boast of their colloidal silver is a very small particle size. Their methods of ionization create very small particles of ionized silver in the water solution, which is beneficial because the smaller the particle size, the more easily absorbed and utilized by the body. In order to overcome this, many people making their own colloidal silver have begun adding very small amounts of hydrogen peroxide to their silver solutions. The hydrogen peroxide has been shown to greatly increase the efficacy of the colloidal silver solution. The hydrogen peroxide breaks apart and reduces the size of the ionized silver particles. But don't use too much hydrogen peroxide. The ratio is only 1:1000 of hydrogen peroxide to colloidal silver.
