Harvesting GANS and Amino Acids
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How To Harvest GANS Amino Acids
The first thing you should do after you have finished your GANS production, is to harvest the Amino Acids from the GANS collection container. The Amino Acid is created during the GANS production process and floats at the surface of the Salt water solution. They look and feel oily (do not touch them with your hands). Amino Acids are organic and the the common denominators on our planet Earth and the whole atmosphere/magnetosphere, which means that we are connected through it. So they are very important for the connection to our Devices and Applications or to our body and any living being.
The layer of amino acids, resting on the surface of the salt solution, is quite thin and therefore difficult to collect. If you use a syringe or eye dropper (pipette) you will collect a quantity of salt water along with the acids. Therefore, it is recommended to use a small spoon or glass rod. Touch the acids with the rod or spoon; the acids will stick to either. Very suitable is a plastic spoon and even better, a nano-coated plastic spoon. Or, in the case of have nothing else, you can use a sheet of paperboard or plastic wrap too. Pour the Amino Acid into a own glass. You can use a syringe with (distilled) water to wash it down from the spoon or you have already water in a glas and and swirl the spoon and with Amino Acid in the water to dissolve it.
With practice, you will learn how to easily harvest the amino acids.
Store harvested Amino Acids in liquid form, or you can dry them (if you use a paperboard to collect acids, drying is a favorable option). After drying, store the Amino Acid powder in a small clean sealed container and label your container (e.g. Amino Acids of CO2 GANS).
Once the harvesting of the amino acids is complete, you can wash the GANS that has been collected in your GANS container (see GANS Washing).
How To Wash GANS
GANS can be washed out completely, but it doesn't has to be necessarily. It's depending on the use of it. If we want use GANS for plants, salinity is maybe not advantageous. If you want to use it in a Health Application like a Patch, the salt can support the connection to the body.
Method:
- GANS settles at the bottom of the collection container. Without disturbing the GANS, pour off/remove the Salt water solution resting above the newly created GANS.
- If you disturb the GANS and it begins to mix into the Salt water, let it settle before attempting to remove more of the the Salt water. (Some GANSes settle down faster, some slower. A safe time would be 24 hours, but you also can wait longer)
- When you have removed most of the Salt water, remove the GANS from the container (you will remove some salt water as well) and place it in a lidded glass jar.
- Allow the GANS to settle at the bottom of the jar and then pour off/remove as much Salt water as possible.
- Fill this GANS glass jar with distilled water and seal it.
- Allow the GANS to settle at the bottom of the glass jar and pour off/remove as much of the water above the GANS as possible without disturbing the GANS.
- Refill the GANS glass jar with distilled water and seal it.
- Allow the GANS to settle at the bottom of the glass jar and pour off/remove as much of the water above the GANS as possible without disturbing the GANS.
Repeat this process (pouring off/removing the water above the GANS; refilling the jar with distilled water; let settle, pour off, etc.) at least 6 to 10 times. This process washes the Salt out of the GANS.
Alternately: You can opt to use GANS collection containers that have spouts at the bottom. You can then open the spout and collect GANS (and some Salt water) negating the need to pour off/remove the Salt water from above the GANS in the collection container. Find a method that works for you.
Helpful: You can also use a ppm-meter, to measure the salinity. It shows you how many parts (particles) per million are in the water. Distilled water has very less amounts of measurable particles in it (1-20ppm), depending on, how it is made or where it is bought. So if you have a salinity of 5% in it, the value of ppm will be let`s say 754 ppm. So if you start washing it out, the ppm level will permanently decrease with it and if you reach the ppm level of the distilled water, you have washed out the salt fully.
(Mixing of the Amino Acids with GANS before washing)
Also there is the opportunity, that you mix up the GANS and the Amino Acids without harvesting it individually beforehand. It depends on what you want to do with it later. If you need exact measurements for your projects or protocols, its not useful, but if you have less equipment and opportunities it should not stop you doing it. If you want to do it that way, you have to remove the water level between the GANS and the Amino Acids as much as possible, without removing much of the GANS and Amino Acids. You can do it with a syringe or hose or be creative in ideas of doing it.
If you have done so and there is nearly only GANS and Amino Acid anymore, you can mix it up with a spoon, or better would be with a (electronic) stirrer. So you have already mix up both important parts for creating the connection to the GANS. You don't have to wash the Salt necessarily out, depending on the purpose of the GANS. Salt is for example a important connector to our body or organs too, which have also a specific salinity. If you still want to wash the Salt out, mix it maybe a few days long again and again, then fill water in it again and follow the steps at "How to wash GANS"
