Frank, By your own admission the blood sample test had problems:
"The high sodium content and other chemicals present in the blood samples cause a very bright orange flame when the samples are vaporized. The altered nature of the flame 2 can cause the measured values of silver to read high on this instrument if deuterium background correction is not used. This instrument is not fitted with the background correction hardware, so the absolute values of the measured blood serum are suspected of being higher than they actually are." "Also essential is the use of an anticoagulant, in this case sodium heparin was used. While this method worked, it is now clear that better methods should be devised for future experiments that require the measurement of silver levels in blood samples using an AAS. Introduction of whole blood into the AAS causes the burner to frequently clog with the residue of the blood cells." "2 Evidence suggests that the incineration of blood cells in the flame produces an ash like residue that absorbs light passing through the flame. It is speculated that the increased light absorption resulting from the ash is primarily responsible for the abnormally high silver reading when aspirating whole blood." These problems mean that the results are unreliable. It would also have been wise to conduct a spiked matrix reading and sample dilution series, to account for interfering species. Also, no determination of the silver species was attempted (particulate silver or silver ions) and the assumption that there is nothing in the gastric juices that could ionise the particulate silver and therefore the blood borne silver is particulate, is only an assumption and not a scientific conclusion. None of this, of course, addresses the question of the effectiveness of particulate ionic silver, but it does seem likely, given your experiment, that particulate silver is absorbed into the blood stream in some form and amount, as yet undetermined. Regards Ivan. > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Key [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2001 01:31 > To: *Silver-List* > Subject: Re: CS>An epiphany? > > > Ivan wrote: > > > And apart from Frank's flawed experiment, no evidence that > non-ionic silver > > particles are actually absorbed. > > > > Please explain exactly what was flawed. > > frank key -- 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]>
