Re: Silverfox question please

Hello Maggie,

The problem with drops is that they are imprecise. When dealing with high concentration chemicals like Miracle-Mineral-Supplement it is better to use other methods of measurements.

You can practice forming drops and get an idea of how many drops your current bottle of Miracle-Mineral-Supplement produces by counting the number of drops it takes to fill 1 ml in a graduated cylinder. Having spent some time exploring this, I will save you the effort and tell you that the amount of drops varies with the liquid level in the bottle.

Under controlled conditions, and after practicing forming drops from several bottles of Miracle-Mineral-Supplement , it averages out to around 17 drops per ml.

If I were doing the measuring, 0.625 ml would be around 10.6 drops.

Fortunately, there are more precise methods of measuring. I picked up a box of 1 cc syringes very inexpensively. 1 cc = 1 ml. They are graduated and determining 0.625 ml is very easy to do.

Also, most people have measuring spoons in their house. 0.625 ml = 1/8 teaspoon.

Another way to deal with this is to reduce the concentration of the chemical. MMS is 28% by weight of 80% pure sodium chlorite. This gives you 22.4% sodium chlorite. This concentration has 224000 PPM available chlorine dioxide. When you are a little sloppy with the measurements, the PPM can wildly swing. Remember that we are using 0.1 - 5 PPM as a target. Reducing the concentration down to a 5% solution will drop the available chlorine dioxide to 50000 PPM. Still a high number, but much more tolerant of a slight measuring error.

It sometimes helps to think of chemistry in terms of cooking. Some people use a pinch of this, a drop of that, a smidgon of something else, a handfull of this, and a splash of liquids. Sometimes their efforts work out, and other times they don't. When they were first starting out, their efforts didn't work out very often. Other people use measuring spoon and measuring cups and try to be more exact in their measurements. Most of the time their efforts work out very well.

When cooking up something in chemistry, you will get better results if you closely measure the chemicals you are using.

Tom