<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by DonavonP:
Sanosil is here
http://www.sanosil.com/-disinfectants-m.htm
I was just reading the ingredients this am while researching the effect of hydrogen peroxide on drinking water. The farmers around here use it in their
cattle watering tanks for crud control and I was wondering what health risks were involved.
Does your RV glow in the dark with those radioactive rocks?
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sanosil is suppose to be a propriatory concoction. I read the literature on it and will make my own. It seems the idea of using hydrogen peroxide and silver is not a new one.
The problem is that silver metal is nearly insoluble in water. The EPA has a limit of silver in drinking water of 0.1mg/liter. This is mainly because they do not want people's skin turning BLUE.
There is always colloidial silver. I do not put much stock in that, however. There is literature about using silver nitrate to treat water. In that case the silver would be totally dissolved and ionic, however when silver nitrate comes in contact with chloride ions it reacts to form silver chloride which precipitates out and has no biological action. Most water contains chloride ions.
Apropo of colloidial silver is something they call copper-silver ionization which is used in swimming pools and cooling water tanks. I have looked at the commercially avaiable units and they seem very expensive. The whole thing can easily be implented on your freshwater storage tank. Find the wire harness entering the top of the tank that connects to the tank level sensors. Make up two wires, each made from electrical grade copper wire and silver 0.999 fine bullion. The ratio should be 20% silver to 80% copper. Intertwine the silver and copper, making two such wires and place a food grade plastic sleeve between them. Drop this down into the tank level sensor hole on the fresh water tank. Connect this up to your 12 volt system with a on-off switch and with a switch that allows you to change which of the copper-silver electrodes recieves positive from the 12 volt system. Obtain some swimming pool copper ppm strips. You are done. It should last you a lifetime and you do not need to run it all the time.
David/zetron