Probably more likely to be the total silver load, or amount of silver
ingested, rather than the form in which it is ingested.

Ivan.

From: "d.linen"

> silver chlorides or salts are supposedly responsible for Argyria, not
> colloidal silver.
>
> Kehoe wrote:
> >
> > Please forgive me if I sound ignorant, but this has been bothering me
for
> > quite some time.  I was under the impression that it was "particle"
silver
> > that caused agryia and that is why we were using ionic silver.  Please
tell
> > me where my thinking might have gone wrong.
> >
> > CK
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert L. Berger" <[email protected]>
> > To: "Silver-list" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 2:26 PM
> > Subject: CS>submerged arc CS Report #1
> >
> > > Hi Ya'all,
> > >
> > > This is the forst of a series of reports detailing my adventure with
> > > submerged arc CS.
> > >
> > > It is a "strange animal."
> > >
> > > I have made two runs and a third is in progress now.
> > >
> > > Ihave made a floating electrode assembly similiar to Bill Fernald's,
but
> > > question is that is necessary for silver as things havppen very fast,
> > > and there is no evaporation of water. With gold that is another story
> > > which will not be looked at for awhile.
> > >
> > > The first batch was one gallon with equal sized electrodes using 12 kv
> > > but it didin't work to well. Arc sustain problems. It looked like
> > > regular HVAC ARC CS but had a bright red T.E. with no sparklies.
> > >
> > > Batch #2 used one #14 and 0ne #18 silver with 6 liters of 0.22 uS/cc
DW.
> > > In 40 minutes I had a CS with a turpidity and color as Frank show on
his
> > > web site. The Spect reading was 5.17 ppm ionic with a conductance of
> > > 10.0 uS/cc.  After 24 hours the conductance was 7.7 uS/cc and the
ionic
> > > ppm was 2.42.
> > >
> > > To test for particle content I placed 50 cc of CS in a test tube and
add
> > > 5 cc of 35% H2O2. After several hours this was tested with the spec
and
> > > found an adjusted ppm for dilution with H2O2 to be 12.7 ppm.
> > >
> > > I quess this says that sub-arc CS is 16% ionic and 84% particle.
> > >
> > > I find it most interesting that both the ppm and conductance dropped
> > > overnight.
> > >
> > > Comments. Please,
> > >
> > > "Ole Bob"
> > >
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