I think the important question appears here: if silver ions form silver chloride in vivo, what is the effect of the silver chorlide? I have never seen any answer to this question, which I have posed to Mr. Key in personal e-mail correspondence.
Mr. Key was kind enough to offer me, a non-scientist, a good experiment to see for myself that he is correct about chloride -- make a batch of ionic/CS and add ordinary table salt. Observe the clouds of silver chloride that form. My question in reply, also yet to be answered, is this: could not ordinary users make fine particulate CS simply by using a good LVDC generator, then adding a high quality salt, and separating the silver chloride from the particles? I still wonder whether this could be done. If so, low-cost particulate CS could be made at low cost by laypersons, just as not the ionic/CS mixture can be made. I remain agnostic on the whole matter given the absence of answers to these questions. I hope some full-time researchers can help clarify this. [email protected] wrote: > > Okay, we've heard some really good arguments in favor and against > ionic silver and particulate silver from both camps. A lot of > important information has been conveyed through this thread and I am > grateful to all of the authors who have contributed to it. One of the > issues that caught my attention was that ionic silver forms silver > chloride when it combines with the salt in out bodies. What about > particulate silver? Won't the exposed surface area of it do the same > thing? Is their some covalent bonding issue that keeps this from > happening? > > A silver coin is just a really big particle of silver and the outer > surface of it will tarnish (silver oxide) when it is exposed to air. > Won't the exposed surface area of smaller silver particles > (mesosilver) form silver chloride when exposed to NaCl? It's my > understanding that the exposed surface area is what is responsible for > killing pathogens. Perhaps silver chloride is what is killing the > pathogens. Once again, thanks for all of the good contributions to > this thread. > > Andy -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
