How to Make Your Own Silver Water

Silver has been used to treat infections, and infectious diseases, for over 100 years. In 1924, the first colloidal silver was produced, and it was commonly used until 1938. When patentable drugs, like penicillin, were developed, colloidal silver was set aside in favor of more profitable pharmaceuticals. Since then, the failure of antibiotics to contain contagious diseases has renewed interest in colloidal silver. It's well-deserved reputation as nature's antibiotic has been documented in magazines like Science Digest, which covered the story of "Silver, Our Mightiest Germ Fighter" in its March 1978 issue. Here's how you can make your own.

Things You'll Need

• Four 9V batteries
• Clean glass tumbler
• Distilled water
• Two 4- or 6-inch, 99.999 percent pure silver wires
• Two alligator clips
• Laser pointer

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Instructions

A Cheap But Effective Method

• 1

  Connect the batteries. Hook up the batteries in series by snapping the positive terminal of one battery to the negative terminal of the next. You'll be left with a free negative and positive battery terminal.

• 2

  Attach the alligator clips to the batteries, by connecting one alligator clip to the free negative battery terminal and the other to the free positive one.

• 3

  Immerse the silver wires in the water. Bend one end of the silver wires into a 270-degree angle, and hook the bent ends on opposite sides of your tumbler's rim. Fill the tumbler with distilled water.

• 4

  Connect the batteries to the silver wires. Clamp the free end of each alligator clip to the bent end of a silver wire. This will start the electrolysis process. In about 20 minutes, you'll see bubbles on the wires and faint wisps of silver peeling off into the water.

• 5

  Check the solution with your laser. As the particle size of your silver increases, the water color will change to a yellow tint. This is how overcooked colloidal silver looks. You can stop the process before this happens by shining your laser through the silver solution. When your colloidal silver is ready, the red beam of your laser will be visible in the water.