Ivan Anderson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marshall Dudley" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, 3 September 2000 15:18 > Subject: Re: CS & ozoning > > > My take on this is that ozone does not react with colloidal silver, > but > > tends to be attracted to it, and electrostatically stick to it same as > > oxygen. I believe that one of the reasons that CS is so effective is > that > > it pulls the O2 apart and singlet O sticks to it, but doesn't actually > react > > with it. Then when it contacts a pathogen, it reacts with the > pathogen > > killing it. An O3 on the surface of the CS particle would likely be > more > > toxic to a pathogen than the O. I believe, but have no proof that CS > is > > enhanced by bubbling O3 through it. I do it myself at times. > > > > Marshall > > Marshall, > > None of what you have written is likely to be found in fact. > Ozone has a very short life in water, a few minutes at room temp. > Oxygen (O2) is neutral and is unlikely to be attracted to SC.
Oxygen is neutral and interacts very strongly with fine silver particles as a catalyst. This is well documented. > Silver > ions do not have the energy to pull O2 apart, and besides, the half life > of the O- radical is milliseconds, and is more likely to pull another > electron from the silver ion, if it could not find a more willing doner > of electrons (which it will). All bets are off when you have O on the surface of a catalyst. We depend on it finding a more willing donor of electrons than silver, that is what makes it a great catalyst. > > > Bubbling Ozone through CS would, I suspect enhance the CS do some > degree, if only by the formation of H2O2, which becomes stable in the > presence of silver ions. > > Ivan. Silver particles are known to be an excellent oxidizing catalyst. Normally O2 shares 2 electrons so that the outer shell is filled, making it stable. Silver particles love to give up electrons and become positive. When an O2 atom comes in contact with the Silver particle, two electrons can transfer from the silver atom to each atom of the O2, filling the outer layers. Once this is done, the two O atoms no longer have an affinity for each other, and are free to move around the SURFACE of the silver particle. That is why it is such a good catalyst, because singlet O is much more active than O2. The silver does not pull them apart at all, it simply supplys the electrons so that they are no longer sharing electrons, and they no longer have an affinity for each other. But reactions of this sort are normally reversable, so singlet O can come back into contact with another singlet O, become O2 and leave the silver. However if O3 reaches the silver particle, a singlet would I think quickly stick to the silver. In that case the particle would have an odd number of O singlets, so that it would impossible for all the O to leave the surface without reacting one of the singlets with something. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
