Ken,
I never stopped to think that the silver may be the hydroxide, evedince
that my understanding of chemistry is limited. (Sometimes I stop and
think and sometimes I just stop.) Can you fill me in on how it is that
the hydroxide is a salt? Does anybody else have an answer? I feel sure
that you're correct that the reason this is not harmful to us CS lovers
in the long run is that 10ppm is extremely dilute. Of course this begs
a question about assertions here that it's not a problem to ingest ionic
silver at the really high concentrations. If this sort of CS is
practically unattainable without the salts then responsible people
should talk about some kind of an upper ppm limit for ingesting. On the
other hand finding that number may be difficult.
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.
Salaam,
Reid
Ode Coyote wrote:
Jason,
Thanks for the reference material. The conditions seem to be
pretty extreme - not many of us are going to be
using 1500 PPM solution of silver salts of any kind as drinking water.
Nevertheless it raises an interesting matter.
Most of the home made "CS" has the silver in the form of a silver salt -
namely silver hydroxide, more so than actual
colloid. So is it only the low concentration and/or dosage that prevents
poisoning? It has been stated previously on this
list that in the case of silver nitrate, nitrate is the actual culprit.
But acetate is from vinegar, so it seems safe to
assume that in the case of silver acetate, only the silver could be to
blame. Is the picture more complicated than this -
meaning the stuff exists in the body in part as undissociated complex
that acts differently to either ionic species?
regards, Kevin Nolan
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