> Hello, > > I am very unclear about particle charges; physics is not my > strong point. However, > I am sure that various manufacturers of CS makers advertise the > charge of their CS, > sometimes as having beneficial "positive" charge, and other > times a healthy > "negative" charge.
JBB, Most electrogenerated CS has a high proportion of positively charged silver ions, due to the mechanism of the electrolysis process. This enables the silver to react with substances on pathogen surfaces, and accounts for some of silver's antibacterial effect. Those silver colloids which advertise a negative charge will be metallic particles, which are neutral in themselves but adsorb, (have attached to the surface) hydroxyl ions which are negatively charged. > I am quite certain of the different health effects of opposite > poles of a magnet, as > well as differing chi energy charges, but wonder whether the CS > produced by > electrolysis actually has no charge, as explained below. > > Could someone clear this up for me? Thanks in advance. > > JBB Marshal has chosen to use a form of words which seem to state that the silver ions in electrogenerated CS solutions are part of some compound such as silver nitrate, silver sulphide or silver chloride. This is obviously not so as distilled water carries none of these complexing substances. Whether this is what he meant to say I don't know. However, he also states that metallic silver is the element in CS, which is also not so (or at least is not the primary element by a wide margin) as he would no doubt discover if he were to test practically any of the CS products on the market or those made and used at home. In mentioning that Argaria is caused by silver compounds, he confuses the end result with the element ingested, and while the absorption rate of silver is much higher for some silver compounds he fails to note that it is possible to get Argaria by the massive absorption of silver supplied in the elemental form. I have yet to see a study which details the greater effectiveness of elemental silver vs silver compounds of the type he describes, or vs silver ions. Regards Ivan. > Marshall Dudley wrote: > > > Ag+ is a silver atom that has lost an electron giving it a > positive charge of one. > > This means that it has united with something else, such as > sulfur, nitrate chlorine > > or whatever and has formed a compound. Compounds of silver can > cause argyria by > > the same mechanisms that photography uses. Apparently > compounds of silver are > > antibacterial, but not nearly as much so as pure silver metal > in the colloidal > > state. > > > > Ag0 would have no charge on it, and is a clump of silver atoms. > They are not > > combined with anything. Metallic silver is used in water > purification systems, > > burn bandages and of course is the element in CS. > > > > 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]>
