Annie, The difference between CS and silver nitrate is the nitrate. Silver ions as supplied by both CS and silver nitrate are benign, but the nitrate is caustic to tissue. Highly diluted silver nitrate has been used to good effect for many years in preventing nasty infections passed from mother to baby during birth, but prolonged use of silver compounds, especially silver nitrate, can be hazardous to health, if not for the tissue damage, then by the large amounts of silver that can be ingested or absorbed in the form of compounds (as opposed to the very small amounts of silver delivered by colloidal silver). Ingestion of large amounts of silver can lead to the cosmetically disfiguring condition known as argyria, in which silver ions bound to tissue, especially skin or eye, may be photo-reduced to silver metal and cause a greying or bluing of the skin.
Regards Ivan. > -----Original Message----- > From: Marshall Dudley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2002 4:44 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>CS and hospital use. > > > Annie Hall wrote: > > > Anyway, as an absolute newby can someone say what is > > the difference, in simple English, between silver > > nitrate and CS please? > > Big difference. Silver Nitrate is a compound, and colloidal > silver is the > pure metal in very small custers. An undeveloped film contains silver > compounds (such as silver nitrate or silver chloride), and > the developed > photograph contains very small silver particles, similar to a colloid. > > Thus if silver nitrate is exposed to light, and a developer > such as caffine, > it will develop into silver particles which will appear > black. Not a good > thing. > > Silver nitrate is also toxic, whereas silver metal and > colloid is not. Some > theories as to how silver kills bacteria relay on it's catalytic > propterites. colloidal silver is a very good catalyst, but > silver nitrate > is a very poor catalyst. > > 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]> > >
