RaVen, I hadn't considered this and now you've got me wondering. Ask me again in three to six months and sorry that I'm putting you off.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 2:01 PM RaVen Sequoia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Reid, > I'm curious if there is a colloidal silver handheld shower filters? > > > RaVen > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 7:04 AM Reid Harvey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks Phil, It seems we can regard the term **colloidal silver** as >> generic, considering that there are numerous, altogether different colloids >> of silver. >> >> For example, where I work at TAM Ceramics, Niagara Falls, NY, we are >> readying distribution of silver treated, granulated ceramics which gives a >> remarkably effective water filter media for destruction of pathogens. I.e., >> for the treatment of this filter media we use a colloid of silver. >> >> It seems that the term ‘colloidal silver,' is the way it’s described for >> sale because for many it’s easier to comprehend than the more accurate >> description: electrically isolated silver. In fact, could it be that >> to be more accurate still we should call it, **Positively Charged Ionic >> Silver**? >> >> BTW, for anyone who may be interested, do checkout the article on TAM >> Ceramics water filter media of granulated ceramics, coated with a small >> amount of silver. The article is in the January/February issue of **Ceramic >> Bulletin*,* the journal of the American Ceramic Society. >> >> If I do say so myself our ceramic filter media is the one and only >> genuinely sustainable approach to water treatment against pathogens for the >> developing world; low cost and user-friendly as such: >> >> >> http://tamceramics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/TAM-feature_01-02-2019.pdf >> >> Reid >> >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 3:23 PM Phil Morrison <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> The term 'colloidal silver' is more likely used in the chemistry arena, >>> 'EIS' is more likely in the physics arena. >>> We are in the chemical arena, so CS is the appropriate term here. >>> >>> Both silver particles and ions work to control pathogens, each in their >>> own way. You might say particles work extracellularly while ions work >>> intracellularly. >>> >>> We are really measuring clusters of silver particles in CS, so >>> nano-meter is the proper term. For instance, 1 np equals approximately 50 >>> silver atoms. >>> >>> KISS >>> >> > > -- > Quote: > “It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live > here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with > celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by > people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our > particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in > these particular circumstances.” > ― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance > <https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/59303> > - Derrick Jensen > Environmental Author > http://www.derrickjensen.org/ > > > >
