Marshall,
  That is interesting: my personal experience is just the opposite. I make high 
ppm CS (about 50 to 60 ppm with PWT) that has some color (light tan to quite 
yellow) for external use, but my regular clear to straw color CS of about 10 to 
18 ppm seems to work for all internal uses. It just could not take care of an 
infected wound, though, so I started making higher ppm small batches for such 
external problems. And the results when I started using the stronger (and I 
would think higher particulate due to the color and stronger TE?) were 
dramatic, where my normal CS (clear to very light straw color, low ppm, mostly 
with faint TE) just was not addressing the infection. 
paula (sol)
P.S. I read Scott's email as referring to some of the over-hyped up websites, 
btw, and therefore thought it was both funny and true. 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marshall Dudley 


  That is not necessarily true. What I sell is mostly ionic, but I think that 
particulate is better for internal use.  Ionic may be better for external use 
though. 
  Marshall 

  sol wrote: 

    "If someone says ionic silver is better, that means they sell CS that is 
mostly ionic. If someone says particulate silver is better, that means they 
sell CS that is mostly particles. Scott,  That says it all, very concisely.  
Thanks for the great "definition" of ionic vs. particulate/colloidal.paula