Re: diluting 500 ppm silver?
What do you think about diluting the 500 ppm solution with distilled water until it is in the 10 to 20 ppm range?
I think it is not a good idea at all. The key is not PPM, but rather surface area per PPM. The only 500 PPM products I know use large PPM to be as effective as better quality smaller PPM products because they use large particle silver made by an inferior process.
You could swallow a 0.999 pure silver marble and have 999,000 PPM silver - but it will not have a fraction of the surface area of quality silver that has particles that are in the tiny sub-nanometer to 10 nm size range. Think of how many basketballs you could get in a 50 gallon container and then add up their surface area. Then think of how many BB's you could get in a 50 gallon container and add up that surface area. Their is simply no comparison.
Diluting a large particle 500 PPM product just makes it that much less effective, whereas using it a full strength might be ingesting far too much large particle silver if you intend to use it in much quantity for any length of time.
Utopia Silver runs sales every couple of weeks where you get 25% off their silver, and you can get 15% off anytime with the CureZone discount code of LR001 (which is good on any product provided it is not on sale at the time).
If you want to save some money, my suggestion is to use the discount code on a Silver Bullet generator and make your own quality silver at home for pennies a gallon. No, it is not as efficient in regards to surface area and it contains less true colloidal silver (about 30%) than does their Advanced Colloidal Silver commercial product (which contains 75% or so true colloidal silver and the rest ionic). However, it has more true colloidal silver than many commercial products and virtually all other home generator products.
If it were me, I would start off with the best stuff and catch it on sale, get myself a generator at a discounted price, and follow the best stuff with home produced silver, upping the amount if you want to use the silver in large quantity. Keep some of the best stuff on hand in case of really tough problems that might come along.
May I ask what condition you intend to use the silver for?
All the best,
Tony