Doesn't it take an actual atmospheric electric arc to make nitric acid which then forms silver nitrate when it reacts with silver? I don't recall seeing any arcing in a LVDC setup.
Ode At 09:47 AM 9/4/2003 -0400, you wrote: >One has to look at quantities. The amount of AgNO3 produced by a low voltage >system using distilled water should be trivial. Don't forget that the medical >community used AgNO3 for medicine for decades, and they did not indicate >anything was wrong with it then. It is still used in newborn babies' eyes in >many hospitals worldwide. The amount the baby receives is far more than one >would ever get from taking any CS made by the LVDC method. > >Chck the msds on it http://www.hummelcroton.com/agno3_m.html > >RTECS Number: VW4725000 > Routes of Exposure: Eye contact. Ingestion. Inhalation. Skin >contact. > Toxicity Data: ORAL LD50: 50 mg/Kg(orl-mus) > Chronic Toxic Effects: Overexposure to silver may cause >argyria. > Acute Toxic Effects: Irritating to the skin and eyes on >contact. Inhalation will cause irritation to the lungs > and mucus membrane. Irritation to the eyes will >cause watering and redness. > Reddening, scaling, and itching are characteristics >of skin inflammation. Follow safe > industrial hygiene practices and always wear >protective equipment when handling this > compound. >Thus the only cronic effect is argyria, and we all know how much silver that >takes. The LD50 is 40mg/Kg, which would be 5 grams of it for a 100 KG >person. At 1 ppm, that would require 5,000 liters of CS. The water would >kill you first. > >Marshall > > >Warren Jefferson wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I thought you might like to know what Stephen Quinto of >> natural-immunogencis.com thinks about home made CS. He wrote me the >> following after reading the manuscript for my upcoming book "Colloidal >> Silver Today" due out in Oct. 03. I think this issue of AgNO3 should be >> addressed . There are a lot of folks making CS at home. Are we at risk? >> Comments? >> >> "We do not really condone the home-making of CS. One of the contaminants >> (AgNO3) is toxic and cumulative in the human body. The equipment necessary >> to avoid this is generally beyond the ability of the maker. And the burden >> of so much elemental silver that is a certainty from such products dilutes >> the efforts the body needs to deal with healing issues." >> >> Warren >> >> -- >> 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]> > >
