James Holmes wrote: > Marshall, > > "Which I believe is due to the prophylactic effect that the particles in EIS > have for argyria." > > At your convenience, will you please give more info on that. >
I have posted on this several times previously. Argyria is caused by silver compounds circulating in the blood. Upon exposure to light in the skin, they spontaneously reduce to silver atoms as they do in film when exposed to light. These atoms will be small enough to either not get caught in the tissue, or will be too small to absorb light, thus not causing any effects by themselves. If the blood stream has sufficient silver compounds in it, and a developer such as caffine in it, then the silver compounds will plate out onto the silver atoms causing them to grow to silver particles that are large enough to absorb light. If this growth rate is sufficiently fast, then these particles can become stuck in the surface tissues, with argyria as the result. Now however if you have taken EIS, which is 20% particles, then any silver compounds in the blood will have both any atoms that appeared in the skin as well as the colloidal particles that are in the EIS to plate out onto. Now if we assume that the average size of a particle of EIS is 2 nm, then it will have a diameter of approximately 10 silver atoms. If the full 80% remaining silver ions plate out evenly onto the particles, then they will grow a diameter of 21.5 atoms, or just under 5 nm in diameter. This will be too small to get caught in the tissues, and even if they did, it would be throughout the body, not just in the skin where it shows. The result is that the ionic silver is quickly depleted from the blood, so that very few atoms of silver will appear in the skin upon exposure to light, and those that do will grow at a rate too slow, and not grow sufficiently in size, to cause them to get caught in the tissues. The colloidal portion of the EIS will act as a collector of silver compounds and limit both the concentration of them in the blood, as well as eliminate them from the blood over time. Thus, silver particles should help prevent silver compounds from depositing in the skin causing argyria. Marshall -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
