Thanks for that. Regards Ivan.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bart Flick [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 26 August 2001 03:11 > To: *Silver-List* > Subject: Re: CS>Silverlon > > > Dear Ivan, > Brief thoughts provided to your questions: > 1.Silver oxide intermediate requires dissolved oxygen. > 2. The oligodynamic action of silver release may occur in plain water or > biological fluids. > 3. More free silver ions are available in plain water because of > less reactive > molecular species to react with. > 4. Reference on oligodynamic can be found in the literature > between 1890 and > 1910. > 5. The reaction of the metalic silver surface and the bacterial > cell wall is > most likely a reduction oxidation process to a major extent and a > non covalent > reaction to a minor extent. The silver oxide imtermediate is > probably not a > factor with respect to the solubility factors of silver oxide. > 6.The debate between ionic versus elemental silver rests with > accurate data via > atomic absroption spectroscopy to know the actual percentages of > ionic versus > elemental and electron microscopy. Lots of speculation but very > little hard > data. Please understand the silver can have an effect in an > ionic form and a > metalic form. The better of the two forms is not possible for me > to know based > upon the data. > Bart Flick M.D. > > -- 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]>
