Ivan, Thanks for the reply. It helped a bit, though I confess I am a bit fuzzy about the charge business; every time I want to understand this fully, I have to go back to Becker's The Body Electric and start afresh!
Cheers, JBB Ivan Anderson wrote: > > 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]>
