Preparing Test Substances

Preparing Test Substances

It is possible to prepare dry substances for testing such as a
piece of lead or grains of pesticide. They can simply be put in a
plastic bag and placed on the test plate. However, I prefer to
place a small amount (the size of a pea) of the substance into a ½
ounce bottle of filtered water. There will be many chemical
reactions between the substance and the water to produce a
number of test substances all contained in one bottle. This
simulates the situation in the body.
Within the body, where salt and water are abundant, similar
reactions may occur between elements and water. For example, a
strip of pure (99.9% pure) copper placed in filtered water might
yield copper hydroxide, cuprous oxide, cupric oxide, copper
dioxide, and so forth. These may be similar to some of the
reaction products one might expect in the body, coming from a
copper IUD, copper bracelet or the copper from metal tooth
fillings. Since the electronic properties of elemental copper are
not the same as for copper compounds, we would miss many test
results if we used only dry elemental copper as a test substance.