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What Is Colloidal Water? (Part 2)
Jan 25th
What Is Colloidal Water? (Part 2)
By Karl Loren
(Continued from Part 1 of “What Is Colloidal Water”)
Compound
Pure water is not a solution. It is a compound. Water is made up of the elements oxygen and hydrogen. Water is a compound because the oxygen and hydrogen are chemically bound together. That binding is generally quite strong.
You wouldn’t say that oxygen and hydrogen mix together — they are not a mixture. A compound means that the oxygen and hydrogen are connected with atomic chains.
When you mix red and blue marbles, you can see that there is nothing much holding them together.
Even when you make a solution of salt water, it is relatively easy to get the salt separated from the water.
But, it is not so easy to get the oxygen separated from the hydrogen in water. These, as a compound, take a great deal of energy to separate. Even boiling the water doesn’t break those chemical bonds. The energy supplied, in the form of heat, simply changes the water from a liquid phase into a gaseous phase.
So, when you start with the compound, called water, you can then add in some common table salt. The salt will “dissolve” and you now have a solution of water containing salt.
If you don’t put in too much salt, it will all dissolve and go into solution. If you put in too much salt, some of it won’t dissolve, but will settle on the bottom of the container.
So, water is a compound, and salt water is a solution.
In addition to salt, there could be hundreds of other substances that you could put in the water and which would dissolve, and go into solution.
You could also put some sand into the water. The sand would NOT dissolve, and would not go into solution. Instead it would simply go to the bottom and sit there. The sand would hardly be called a mixture in the water because it is not mixed up with the water. It is a sediment in the water. It is a sediment that settles in the bottom of the container.
Now, we can look at this term: colloid.
The size for a particle to be considered a colloid is small enough to remain suspended within a solution, such as water, but not so small that it will combine, chemically, with the atoms and molecules around it. Thus, a colloidal particle retains its integrity as a substance but remains suspended in the fluid. It doesn’t dissolve — it floats!
If a particle of calcium, for instance, were so small that it is actually only one atom of calcium, it would quickly combine with other atoms into some compound or complex material.
If a particle of calcium (like a “chunk”) were rather large, it would not stay in suspension, but would sink to the bottom of the fluid, as sediment.
The colloidal particle is something in between — it is small enough to stay in suspension — also it is too small for you to see even when looking through clear water. And, it is large enough to retain its integrity as a substance.
It appears to me that colloidal research has been carefully shunted away from the health fields. I have evidence that colloidal forms of various elements can have very beneficial effect within the body. This is certainly a subject for another Book, or my newsletter.
Electrical Charge On A Colloidal Particle
There is another characteristic of a colloidal particle that is very appropriate to bring up here. That has to do with the concept of an object holding an electrical charge. You are probably familiar with the event of rubbing your feet on the carpet, on a dry day, and then touching some metal object. You can get a healthy shock! You can even, sometimes, see a spark jump from a door knob to your finger. It hurts!
Well there is an electrical charge built up on the body or the door knob and the electrical charge wants to “run” by jumping from one electrical pole to the other. I won’t get into whether the electricity jumps from the door knob to your finger or from your finger to the door knob — it just jumps.
So, you are probably familiar with this concept, that objects, whether meat bodies or metal objects, can have electricity on them — electricity that can jump — electricity that is not much different from the electricity that goes through a light bulb.
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Endnotes
mix·ture (m¹ks”ch…r) n. 1.a. The act or process of mixing: an alloy made from the mixture of two metals. b. The condition of being mixed: the inevitable mixtures of urban neighborhoods. 2. Something produced by mixing. 3. One that consists of diverse elements: The day was a mixture of sun and clouds. 4. A fabric made of different kinds of thread or yarn. 5. Chemistry. A composition of two or more substances that are not chemically combined with each other and are capable of being separated. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mixt¿ra, frommixtus, past participle of misc¶re, to mix. See meik- below.]
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SYNONYMS: mixture, blend, admixture, compound, composite, amalgam. These nouns refer to a combination produced by mixing. Mixture has the widest application: a mixture of tea and honey; yarn that is a mixture of nylon and cotton. “He showed a curious mixture of eagerness and terror” (Francis Parkman). Blend denotes an intimate, harmonious mixture in which the original components lose their distinctness: The novel is a fascinating blend of illusion and reality. Admixture suggests that one of the components of the mixture is dissimilar to the others:The essential oil in the perfume contains a large admixture of alcohol. A compound is a combination of elements or parts that together constitute a new and independent entity: The wordhouseboat is a compound. Creative genius is a compound made up of exceptional intellect and superior imagination. A composite usually lacks the unity of a compound since the components may not wholly lose their identities: The suite is a composite of themes for various parts of the opera. Amalgam implies an intimate union of diverse elements likened to an alloy of mercury and another metal: an amalgam of charming agreeability and indefatigable humor.
so·lu·tion (s…-l›”sh…n) n. Abbr. sol., soln. 1.a. A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances, which may be solids, liquids, gases, or a combination of these. b. The process of forming such a mixture. 2. The state of being dissolved. 3.a. The method or process of solving a problem. b. The answer to or disposition of a problem. 4. Law. Payment or satisfaction of a claim or debt. 5. The act of separating or breaking up; dissolution. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sol¿ti½, sol¿ti½n-, from sol¿tus, past participle ofsolvere, to loosen. See SOLUTE.]
com·pound1 (k¼m-pound”, k…m-, k¼m”pound”) v. com·pound·ed, com·pound·ing, com·pounds. –tr. 1. To combine so as to form a whole; mix. 2. To produce or create by combining two or more ingredients or parts: pharmacists compounding prescriptions. 3. To settle (a debt, for example) by agreeing on an amount less than the claim; adjust. 4. To compute (interest) on the principal and accrued interest. 5. To add to; increase: High winds compounded the difficulties of the firefighters. –intr. 1. To combine in or form a compound. 2. To come to terms; agree. –com·pound (k¼m”pound”, k¼m-pound”, k…m-) adj. 1. Consisting of two or more substances, ingredients, elements, or parts. 2. Botany. Composed of more than one part. –com·pound (k¼m”pound”) n. comp., cpd. 1. A combination of two or more elements or parts. See Synonyms at mixture. 2. Linguistics. A word that consists either of two or more elements that are independent words, such as loudspeaker, baby-sit, or high school, or of specially modified combining forms of words, such as Greekphilosophia, from philo-, ”loving,” and sophia, ”wisdom.” 3. Chemistry. A pure, macroscopically homogeneous substance consisting of atoms or ions of two or more different elements in definite proportions that cannot be separated by physical means. A compound usually has properties unlike those of its constituent elements. 4. Botany. a. A leaf whose blade is divided into two or more distinct leaflets. b. A pistil composed of two or more united carpels. [Alteration of Middle English compounen, from Old French componre, compondre, to put together, from Latincomp½nere. See COMPONENT.] –com·pound“a·ble adj. –com·pound“er n.
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What Is Colloidal Water? (Part 1)
Jan 24th
By Karl Loren
While any good bottled water, or any good filtered water will do wonders for you, there is another form of water that has never been well publicized and about which I’d like to spend a few pages.
First, I want to introduce an important new term: colloid.
In simple terms this word has to do with the size of a particle. The size is very small.
In order to understand colloid, you need to also understand the more common words, element, mixture, and compound. Finally, you should understand the word solution amongst all these new terms.
Elements
When you look at some material you know that it is composed of elements, like iron, oxygen or any of the other many elements.
Water is made up of oxygen and hydrogen. Air is made up of oxygen and other gasses.
Water and air are examples of different elements combined in various ways.
An element is the smallest unit of matter we can have where the stuff retains its character as a substance. More technically, you can’t break an element into simpler parts with a chemical technique. You can have an atom of oxygen, but there is no smaller unit of oxygen than one atom.
You CAN use atomic guns and break an atom into smaller parts, but when you do that you no longer have the element — you simply have an atomic fragment.
So, elements are the smallest unit of mater that you can achieve with chemistry.
Obviously you can combine different elements and there are two basic forms elements combine into. In one of these combinations there is a physical combining — that’s a mixture. In the other the combination is a chemical combining — that’s called a compound.
Mixture
The word for the physical combining of elements is mixture!
Let’s say that you have red marbles and blue marbles and put them both into a container, you have a mixture of marbles. A mixture can be separated into its component parts by some form of physical separation. You can pick out the red marbles, physically.
You could have a mixture of large marbles and small marbles. Here too, the two different types of marbles could be separated from one another simply by a screen with holes, or by picking out the big ones, leaving the small ones.
There are two different types of mixtures. One type is when you mix marbles. The things being mixed don’t have any particular chemical reaction with one another. They retain their original form and can be separated with some physical method.
Red marbles and blue marbles don’t have chemical reactions between them.
Mixtures are very common around us, and even include salt placed in water. Salt water is the OTHER type of mixture, where there is a chemical change because of the mixture.
All you have to do with the salt water is heat it up. The water goes away and you will have salt left in the container. In other words, there is a physical, rather than a chemical, method of separating the components back into their separate piles.
Solution
A solution is a special type of mixture. Salt placed in water makes the type of mixture called a solution.
The mixture of salt in water makes a combination where you no longer can see the salt, so a mixture doesn’t require that you can see the different components. You could also mix salt and sugar. Many people couldn’t tell the difference, but if you are trained, and look carefully, you could see the individual salt particles, separate from the sugar particles. This salt and sugar mixture is NOT a solution.
Salt in water is an example of a mixture called a solution. The other type of mixture, with the marbles, doesn’t have a fancy name, but you can see that there would be these two different types of mixtures.
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Endnotes
mix·ture (m¹ks”ch…r) n. 1.a. The act or process of mixing: an alloy made from the mixture of two metals. b. The condition of being mixed: the inevitable mixtures of urban neighborhoods. 2. Something produced by mixing. 3. One that consists of diverse elements: The day was a mixture of sun and clouds. 4. A fabric made of different kinds of thread or yarn. 5. Chemistry. A composition of two or more substances that are not chemically combined with each other and are capable of being separated. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mixt¿ra, frommixtus, past participle of misc¶re, to mix. See meik- below.]
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SYNONYMS: mixture, blend, admixture, compound, composite, amalgam. These nouns refer to a combination produced by mixing. Mixture has the widest application: a mixture of tea and honey; yarn that is a mixture of nylon and cotton. “He showed a curious mixture of eagerness and terror” (Francis Parkman). Blend denotes an intimate, harmonious mixture in which the original components lose their distinctness: The novel is a fascinating blend of illusion and reality. Admixture suggests that one of the components of the mixture is dissimilar to the others:The essential oil in the perfume contains a large admixture of alcohol. A compound is a combination of elements or parts that together constitute a new and independent entity: The wordhouseboat is a compound. Creative genius is a compound made up of exceptional intellect and superior imagination. A composite usually lacks the unity of a compound since the components may not wholly lose their identities: The suite is a composite of themes for various parts of the opera. Amalgam implies an intimate union of diverse elements likened to an alloy of mercury and another metal: an amalgam of charming agreeability and indefatigable humor.
so·lu·tion (s…-l›”sh…n) n. Abbr. sol., soln. 1.a. A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances, which may be solids, liquids, gases, or a combination of these. b. The process of forming such a mixture. 2. The state of being dissolved. 3.a. The method or process of solving a problem. b. The answer to or disposition of a problem. 4. Law. Payment or satisfaction of a claim or debt. 5. The act of separating or breaking up; dissolution. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sol¿ti½, sol¿ti½n-, from sol¿tus, past participle ofsolvere, to loosen. See SOLUTE.]
com·pound1 (k¼m-pound”, k…m-, k¼m”pound”) v. com·pound·ed, com·pound·ing, com·pounds. –tr. 1. To combine so as to form a whole; mix. 2. To produce or create by combining two or more ingredients or parts: pharmacists compounding prescriptions. 3. To settle (a debt, for example) by agreeing on an amount less than the claim; adjust. 4. To compute (interest) on the principal and accrued interest. 5. To add to; increase: High winds compounded the difficulties of the firefighters. –intr. 1. To combine in or form a compound. 2. To come to terms; agree. –com·pound (k¼m”pound”, k¼m-pound”, k…m-) adj. 1. Consisting of two or more substances, ingredients, elements, or parts. 2. Botany. Composed of more than one part. –com·pound (k¼m”pound”) n. comp., cpd. 1. A combination of two or more elements or parts. See Synonyms at mixture. 2. Linguistics. A word that consists either of two or more elements that are independent words, such as loudspeaker, baby-sit, or high school, or of specially modified combining forms of words, such as Greekphilosophia, from philo-, ”loving,” and sophia, ”wisdom.” 3. Chemistry. A pure, macroscopically homogeneous substance consisting of atoms or ions of two or more different elements in definite proportions that cannot be separated by physical means. A compound usually has properties unlike those of its constituent elements. 4. Botany. a. A leaf whose blade is divided into two or more distinct leaflets. b. A pistil composed of two or more united carpels. [Alteration of Middle English compounen, from Old French componre, compondre, to put together, from Latincomp½nere. See COMPONENT.] –com·pound“a·ble adj. –com·pound“er n.
(Look for Part 2 of “What Is Colloidal Water?”)
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