New member from France

Hi from France everyone

First, thank you Mr Collette for sharing your knowledge with us in a so easy way to understand. I am glad to be a new member of this forum.

Would you, or another member, be so kind as to answer a few questions about the protocole :

- What is the kind of material you use to seal hermetically the flask ?

- Is a "bag of ice" a common plastic sachet with ice cubes inside, or a frozen pack that keeps icy temperature from a freezer?

- Does "raw sea salt" means commercial celtic salt, or is it needed to pick up sea water and harvest salt through evaporation ?


Kind regards,
Bien cordialement à vous,

Philippe

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Hi from France everyone

Welcome to the forum

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- What is the kind of material you use to seal hermetically the flask ?

This thread may help http://www.lost-academy.com/practical-alchemy-f1/proper-equipment-t8.htm
Check the last post of the Admin on what hermetic seal means.

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- Is a "bag of ice" a common plastic sachet with ice cubes inside, or a frozen pack that keeps icy temperature from a freezer?

I tried to use a frozen pack and it worked just fine, collects about 15 ml per night.

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- Does "raw sea salt" means commercial celtic salt, or is it needed to pick up sea water and harvest salt through evaporation ?

I think the extra effort to collect raw salt is needed in order to be on the safe side. Table sea salt may not work for many reasons but I don't know for sure. Some organic shops sell raw sea salt, maybe purify this.
Please mention that those are my personal opinions only.

Thank you for your help The Fool

I am going on reading all the posts before asking.

In the Actum Leyden letter, he does say to use the purest cleanest sea salt, so maybe using refined sea salt sold for cooking purposes in good enough. He does say that he used salt shipped from Spain, so if we only knew the purity of that salt back in the 17th century, that would answer our questions.

But I'm doing an experiment with purified sea salt from the grocery store just to test it out. This raw sea salt I used from the Dea Sea seems too dirty.

I am refining the raw salt myself by dissolution, filtration and recrystalization. Definately it is not nice to have mud in your bottle when you unite it with dew and trying to find the grey salt also.



1. Evaporation dish
2. Mortar and pestle
3. Refined salt

The finely grinded refined salt is snow-white and very beautiful to look at. Grinding the salt helps a lot with dissolution also.

Admin wrote:

In the Actum Leyden letter, he does say to use the purest cleanest sea salt, so maybe using refined sea salt sold for cooking purposes in good enough. He does say that he used salt shipped from Spain, so if we only knew the purity of that salt back in the 17th century, that would answer our questions.

But I'm doing an experiment with purified sea salt from the grocery store just to test it out. This raw sea salt I used from the Dea Sea seems too dirty.

Hi there,

Does anyone know if people could use the pure salt named "Sel gris" and "Fleur-de-sel" from the city in France called "Guérande"? This pure seasalt contains the normal amount of NaCL, but it's free of pollution.

Maybe another solution is to use "Pure-Aussie", this is a solution of pure seaminerals with a maximum amount of NaCL of 1 to 2%. See the USA importers website:
http://www.seamineral.com/prod_cat_details.asp?prodcatid=1&prodid=1
and more info here:
http://www.earthincommon.com/pure-aussie-ocean-derived-minerals-p-117.html

Thanks and greetings from Holland

traxl wrote:

Admin wrote:

In the Actum Leyden letter, he does say to use the purest cleanest sea salt, so maybe using refined sea salt sold for cooking purposes in good enough. He does say that he used salt shipped from Spain, so if we only knew the purity of that salt back in the 17th century, that would answer our questions.

But I'm doing an experiment with purified sea salt from the grocery store just to test it out. This raw sea salt I used from the Dea Sea seems too dirty.

Hi there,

Does anyone know if people could use the pure salt named "Sel gris" and "Fleur-de-sel" from the city in France called "Guérande"? This pure seasalt contains the normal amount of NaCL, but it's free of pollution.

Maybe another solution is to use "Pure-Aussie", this is a solution of pure seaminerals with a maximum amount of NaCL of 1 to 2%. See the USA importers website:
http://www.seamineral.com/prod_cat_details.asp?prodcatid=1&prodid=1
and more info here:
http://www.earthincommon.com/pure-aussie-ocean-derived-minerals-p-117.html

Thanks and greetings from Holland

I am currently buying my dead sea salt from a a company called Saltworks.
I have been very happy with the purity of their product. It seems to have
a lot of fire.

I use the Bokek unrefined salt. It has nothing added and nothing taken away. Right straight from the salt bed.
It's in the bath and spa section.

Their link is: www.saltworks.us/shop/product.asp?idProduct=3[/url]

Why dont people just visit their local healthfood store, they usually have many brands of different seasalts...