Thanks for the reply. I am a wee bit confused, though, as I had thought that one claimed advantage of the particulate silver was a reduced risk of argyria, which I thought you had claimed to be a concern after silver ions turn to silver chloride. Perhaps I misunderstood something.
JBB Frank Key wrote: > > Jonathan wrote: > > > 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. > > Adding salt to a solution consisting of silver ions and some silver > particles will > cause the silver ions to precipitate out as silver chloride. If left to > settle for a few days > the silver chloride will eventually settle to the bottom. The remaining > liquid could > be decanted off the top leaving the silver chloride behind. The liquid would > no longer > contain silver ions, only silver particles along with sodium ions and > chloride ions in the > liquid. > > It is not clear what the benefit would be from doing this. The silver ions > in home > brewed ionic silver solutions are low enough in concentration that they do > not pose > an argyria risk. This would result in approximately the same, or slightly > less, > concentration of silver particles than you started with. > > frank key > > > 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. > > -- > 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]>
