{"id":1246,"date":"2014-05-17T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T12:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/?page_id=1246"},"modified":"2014-05-17T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T12:34:10","slug":"measuring-the-ph-of-silver-products","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/?page_id=1246","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the pH of Silver Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postarea\">\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div id=\"msg_9356\" class=\"inner\">The pH of colloidal silver cannot be measured with a standard electronic pH meter.\u00a0 This is because the electrode chemistry in the meter itself is based on silver\/silver chloride, and these electrodes are known to read erroneously in solutions containing silver and other transition metals.\u00a0 There is an electrode designed to measure pH in solutions containing transition metals like silver, it is known as a calomel electrode.\u00a0 Calomel electrodes are based on mercury\/mercuric chloride, and are not generally used because of the toxicity of mercury.<\/p>\n<p>For the home user, an accurate pH reading of your colloidal silver can be made using Hydrion pH paper, which is only sensitive to hydrogen ions, and therefore is not bothered by silver in the solution.\u00a0 Hydrion paper is available in different ranges, so make sure you get one which reads within a few units of 7.<\/p>\n<p>There is a silver generator dealer who claims his CS has a pH of 10, and one of the members measured it with a silver based pH meter and it did indeed read 10.\u00a0 He makes a big deal out of this claim probably so he can cash in on the alkaline water craze.\u00a0 However the actual pH is no doubt less than 8.\u00a0 Measurements of my CS are in the range of 7.2 to 7.8 using Hydrion paper which is accurate to .2 pH units.<\/p>\n<p>Alkaline solutions feel soapy, slippery.\u00a0 At pH 10, it should be noticeable.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"modify_button_9356\" class=\"modifybutton\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" title=\"Modify message\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.cgcsforum.com\/Themes\/default\/images\/icons\/modify_inline.gif\" alt=\"Modify message\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"moderatorbar\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pH of colloidal silver cannot be measured with a standard electronic pH meter.\u00a0 This is because the electrode chemistry in the meter itself is based on silver\/silver chloride, and these electrodes are known to read erroneously in solutions containing <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/?page_id=1246\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":762,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1246","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1246\/revisions\/1247"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}