Robert Berger wrote:
> Marshall, I do not understand why you care about total silver. When > Frank Key and Stephen Quintro tested the same batch of my product they > both came up with about 99.4% ionic. So why screw around with a > hazardous disgeting process. > > I am interested in total silver content, that includes both the ionic > and colloidal component. Since ALL of it eventually turns into > colloid in the blood, then it is the total that is important. Also the > colloidal component gets into the blood stream quicker than much the > ionic content which forms silver chloride, precipitates out, then > slowly redissolves and moves into the blood. Of course adding > Gatorade will create silver chloride complexes which make the ionic > absorption much faster. Also you MUST have some colloidal component > to prevent the possbility of getting argyria from the ionic > component. They play together, and either alone is not as good as the > combination. > > As point in history the fumes from the nitric acid are vicious and I > had to work out doors to as not to rust my tools, aqnd wear a chromic > acid mist mask. > I use a simple fume hood I purchased from Cole Palmer which works > quite well indoors. > About 1998 or 1999 Bruce Marx bought Hack's equipment for the process > and it wouldn't work. Their Tech could not make it work so they took > the equipment back. > > Their published procedure does not work, I had to get a workable > procedure elsewhere, and it worked fine. Takes boiling dry with > nitric acid, then refluxing at boiling temperature with nitric acid, > then neutralizing with sodium hydroxide using phenophalian as an > indicator. > > Marshall > > > > > > "Ole Bob"
