Well while everyone is about it, why not start another argument or discussion on the 'purity' of something. As far as I am concerned, and I'm no graduate chemist or physicist, the term 'purity' is only a connotation put on something for the purpose of satisfying an explanation or description. Nothing in our world is 'pure', what is 'pure'? The only thing that's 'pure' regarding EICS in my opinion is 'conjecture', which is defined in one of my dictionaries as, quote, "the formation of ideas or opinions from incomplete or doubtful information", end quote. While this definition can be argued to infinity and subject to an individuals interpretation, (which I'm not getting involved with and will leave to the scholars to contemplate), the basic meaning of it speaks to me. Is silver 'pure'? is water 'pure'? and I don't care if the water's distilled, pure, rain, out of the tap, flowing from some alpine glacier up in oodla woop woop or a person running around on the top of a mountain collecting mist or fog or whatever in a plastic bag. Is 99.99999% pure fine silver 'pure'? I suspect not, if it was it would be 100% pure fine silver, but the definition satisfies the individual who is seeking 'pure' silver. Is pure water pure, again I suspect not, but is satisfies for the purpose of description. I would assume immediately the lid comes off the bottle it's no longer 'pure'.
Purity to me is something which is unquestionable and absolute, (to borrow a terminology <g>), so I have to ask, is there anything in our world which is pure in unquestionable and absolute terms? This is another reason why I am endlessly amazed at why there is so much 'picking the bones' of EICS. I've been following, (as best my limited intelligence allows), a lengthy discussion in recent days and it appears to me everyone is pretty much right back to a place where every home producer of EICS has been for years. While a lot may have been learned by some my experience is that for every answer found, there are two questions which comes with it. The finer points of CS has too many 'pot-holes' to me to get a clear run and I suspect it will be this way for some time to come. In my mind there is no such thing as 'pure colloidal silver', as termed, but the terminology satisfies me for the purpose of description. Just felt a need to express the above as a perspective that's all. N.
