Hi Mary Ellen, Ok, here we go, without all the " . . . . "; first off, some things dissolve easily in water - salt, sugar, alcohol (think vodka), even oxygen and nitrogen and carbon dioxide out of the air though some of these not very much. Some things don't dissolve - though you can get an argument about that, but for now; uh . . . no.
So next, strange as it may seem, there are two ways things dissolve in water; they either stay themselves and their molecules just get totally swirled into and around with the water molecules - like alcohol - or they get split into two parts, a positive part and a negative. The "positive" and "negative" descriptions of the parts are there because the whatever - let's say good ol' salt - when it dissolves in water - gets torn in two so a very little extra + (plus) electric charge ends up on one piece and a matching opposite - (minus) electric charge on the other: Those are ions, a positive ion, and a negative ion, from what was salt. Neither one alone is still salt . . . I know salty water tastes like salt, it "has salt in it", salt crystals in your hand taste like salt. I'm not making this stuff up; you asked, and I enjoy explaining it, but you can't get a whole chemistry class in a couple of notes so take it a bit at a time. An ion is a tiny bit of something that dissolved in water by splitting off a bit of itself, often a tiny - electric charge, an electron. So, would you believe silver will dissolve in water? Well, with a little help we can do it; basically a "colloidal" silver generator takes some electric charges and runs them out into a silver wire stuck into some water. There's another silver wire with the opposite kind of electric charges in the water too, but the one with the positive charges attracts one of a silver molecule's negative charges and somehow convinces that Ion of silver to leave the wire. Of course it's not all so simple, sometimes the silver ion turns right around and sticks back on, sometimes a few of them get out there, get together and steal some charges from some water and turn back into plain, but very very small particles of silver. Those particles are what make the colloidal part of the deal. The generators discussed on this list are mostly of the kind that do this with electricity; it seems to be the best way, and the "colloidal silver" made with them is actually part Ionic - silver ions - and part particulate. And if the particles are small, and most of them are, they are said to be colloidal which means they are SO small they won't even settle out to the bottom in the water. Generally you get about eighty percent ionic silver and twenty percent colloidal silver in a batch. Both are just fine! All for now, remember to take care of yourself! Malcolm On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 21:10 -0500, Mary Ellen Murphy wrote: > I still do not understand yet the difference between Ionic and collodal > silver. Between all the people who know what they are talking about to a > newcomer all it is is jibber jabber. I still don't have clue what the > difference is and which machine make ionics and which make colloidal. I > would love just someone to give to me in laymans terms without all the...I > guess arguing. Could someone help. I have read and read and you guys just > have me lost. > > I appreciate the info but I don't think anyone has said which is ionic and > which is colloidal. > > Thanks > Mary Ellen -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
