Hey, That sorta makes sense!  After all, sucking a bullion coin doesn't
make one gag.
Ken

At 08:19 PM 3/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Can you elaborate on the origin of that re: ionic v. particulate?
>
>Both experience and chemistry and biology.  High-particle/low-ion silver 
>preparations have, in my experience, much less of a metallic taste.  Also, 
>the tongue determines taste via chemical reactions, essentially.  Inert 
>substances should have little to no taste, whereas ionic, dissolved, 
>charged, etc., molecules will have taste if the appropriate receptors are 
>present.  So the stronger the taste, the more silver ions you have in 
>solution, AFAIK.
>
>
>
>-Paul
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