Paula- Here is a great article on colloidal silver. http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/colloidal_silver/Colloidal_Silver_Research.html. I think it does a great job in explaining everything about colloidal silver. I cut and pasted the parts I though appropriate for this discussion below, however the rest of the article is fantastic as well. Rob Silver is referred to as a transition metal in chemical literature, along with copper and gold. They are metals that are heavier than the life giving light metals, such as sodium, calcium, and potassium, yet lighter than the toxic heavy metals such as lead, arsenic and mercury. Gold and silver are considered noble metals because they tend to not react easily to form compounds. The transition metals are known for their catalytic properties.
Although ionic silver (such as any silver compound dissolved in water) has very little if any catalytic effect, and macroscopic silver has little effect either. However, very finely powdered silver becomes a very good oxidizing catalyst. Starting with atomic or ionic silver, the catalytic effect increases with particle size until it reaches a peak at some value, then drops off to a much lower level when the particles approach the wavelength of light. This is easy to explain by examining how a catalyst works. Each positively charged silver atom will attract one negatively charged atom or molecule. Once they touch, the charge is neutralized. If you have more than one positively charged atom of silver in a particle, then each can attract a negatively charged atom or particle. If a clump of silver atoms binds with two negatively charged particles, such as oxygen and something else, these two particles will no longer electrostatically repel each other, but will be brought together and will react, oxidizing the particle. -----Original Message----- From: sol [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 4:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>Silver-heavy metal NOT That's ok, people seem to be mis-reading my intent, I do not need arguments that silver is not toxic or that water can be toxic. I just want to stop telling folks it is not a heavy metal, if in fact it is. I have also read it called a "transition" metal, and the toxic heavy metals are also listed as transition metals on the table I sent the link to. I sh ould have researched this a long time ago, and not parroted things I read. There is plenty of evidence that silver (EIS) is not toxic without making false arguments, which is what I want to avoid, as when I myself find out that a fact is mis-stated or false, I tend to disbelieve everything else, you know? I simply want to be accurate. paula ----- Original Message ----- From: mamapug <mailto:[email protected]> Even water is toxic in amounts large enough to drown in. Water can also be toxic when swallowed in large amounts. Here in Utah, a couple is up for murder, for forcing their adopted child to drink quarts of water as a punishment. It killed her. She was 5. Marshalee
