[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.
Wrong, tarnish is silver sulfide, not silver oxide. > Won't the exposed surface area of smaller silver particles > (mesosilver) form silver chloride when exposed to NaCl? No, neither will putting a silver coin into salt water form any silver chloride. > 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. Tests have shown silver chloride to be several orders of magnitude less effective than colloidal silver in killing pathogens. Marshall > > > Andy >
