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While titanium and platinum have for a long time been considered relatively inert and biologically compatible materials, some of my customers have expressed concern about the possible toxic effects of titanium. This appears to be mainly due the the article published at www.holisticdental.org/titaniumtoxicity.html which article was removed from the site. Another useful article is found here, but it has to do mainly with implants which may not apply to the consumption of titanium ions.

I have asked my scientist consultant, Vinny Pinto at www.h-minus-ion.org about the toxicity of titanium and platinum, and his opinion was that if you are going to use electrolysis to ionize water, titanium and platinum are the best metals to use, and furthermore, even platinum has some toxic effects, but he wouldn't elaborate what those were because he was doing research for another client.

My opinion is that ionized water seems to have a great many benefits which outweight the possible toxic effects of metals. You would by now be aware of these benefits or you wouldn't be reading this. You can consider using detox patches to remove metals from the body.

For the past five years our electrodes have been made from titanium wire, with a rectangle on the end of the wire made from platinum plated titanium. The design of the electrode has being changed to minimize the amount of contact of titanium with water; this is done by use of a polyethylene sleeve to cover the wire. Polyethylene is the same material used to make 1 gallon water jugs, milky white in color with a waxy feel to it. There is still 3/4" or so remnant of titanium wire that attaches to the rectangle, and the sides of the rectangle where they are cut from a bigger sheet are unplated titanium.

How to determine when the platinum has worn off
The process of electrolysis tends to dissolve the platinum into the water over a period of time. You can determine if the platinum plating remains by heating the end of the electrode in a gas flame until it is red hot.

First slide the sleeve as far away as possible from the rectangle before heating. When removed from the flame, the platinum will not change color. The titanium will turn dark.

When the platinum has totally dissolved from the titanium rectangle, the wire will break.