At 04:46 PM 5/28/99 -0400, you wrote: >In pratical terms it means that the silver particles aggregate together. >Basically you can tell particle size by what what light is absorbs. Ionic silver >(atoms) absorb in the uv range and will appear clear when in water. As more atoms >bind together, the wavelenth that is absorbed increases so that at around 5 nm or >so it will begin absorbing within the visible spectrum, ie. violet. When violet >light is absorbed, you see the complement, or in this case yellow. Thus as >particle size increases the "color" of colloidal silver will go from clear to >light yellow, to gold, orange, red, and brown. When you have a range of large >particles the it will absorb light across the band, and will appear grey or >black. Large particles will not stay suspended and will precipite out, that is >fall out. This is bad. > >Thus when you add aloe vera and get the grey, you end up with a small amount of >large particles instead of a large amount of small particles. Effectiveness is >proportional to the number of particles, so this drops effectiveness >considerably. Also if you ingest it, the large particles will not be able to >penetrate the stomach and make it into the blood. Keeping the mixture at a ph of >7 or more (sorry I said 7 or less before, that was wrong) and refrigerating the >combination should allow it to keep for several months provided that you start >with a high quality colloid that is clear, or only faintly yellow and refrigerate >it. > >BTW, many sources of aloe vera have benzoic acid in them, and this tends to make >the silver aggrregate and precipitate as well, so try to get pure aloe vera if you >can. > >I hope this helps. > >Marshall >~~~~~~~ It helps enormously. But I still want to know what happens in the stomach, when CS hits the stomach acid. Does it aggregate? Why would it or wouldn't it? This seems to be an important/essential point. If CS aggregates in the stomach...when it hits stomach acid...then that would really affect the absorption.
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