It is not a strong solution, 1% or so if I remember right. Silver Nitrate will not cause black staining unless either exposed to bright light, or a developer is present. Apparently the lack of bright light and a developer prevents the silver nitrate from blinding due to reduction.
Marshall Ode Coyote wrote: > Silver nitrate is a corrosive substance and will stain tissues black. > Silver chloride? > Ken > > At 08:19 PM 6/18/02 -0700, you wrote: > >>>> > > Children wire sometimes born of a mother who had venereal disease. When > left untreated the child would go blind. When the Silver Chloride was added > to the eye blindness was prevented. It was a rule to treat all children. I > believe I remember hearing that the treatment sometimes burned the eye > tissue. Marlene Wa. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tai-Pan > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 9:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>silver uses > > Hi d.linen, > > Sort of indirectly, not really for blindness. > > Bless you, Bob Lee > > "d.linen" wrote: > > They used to put silver nitrate in the eyes of newborns to > prevent > blindness. > > Rich Adams wrote: > > > > Can ANYONE list some commercial uses of silver other then > the bandages at > > silverlon and other then the burn centers use it? In regards > to healing > > that is... > > > > Respectfully, > > Rich Adams > > > > -- > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of > colloidal silver. > > > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: > <http://silverlist.org/>http://silverlist.org > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > > > Silver-list archive: > <http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html>http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > -- > oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast > [email protected] > > <<<<
