Reid Harvey wrote: > Ken, > > Also, back to my limited chemistry, I would like to know why it is that > one would have to isolate one element in a simple compound as the > culprit in a health problem. For example with silver nitrate why does > the problem have to be either the silver or the nitrate. I think the > problem is probably the compound. Another example: it's been stated > here that gold chloride is highly toxic, yet gold metal is beneficial > and chlorine is a lot less toxic.
You have a good point here, although gold chloride is not a good example since chlorine is deadly toxic.A good example would be hydrogen cyanide, HCN, which is deadly toxic, yet hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen alone are totally harmless. 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]>
