Thank you very much Frank for bringing this to my attention. I shall hit the books again, and adjust my thinking.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Key" <fr...@strsoft.com> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 11:32 AM Subject: Re: CS>Re: Thoughts and comments > A.V.R.A. wrote: > > > According to Peter Lindemann ( whom I personally view as a good source of > > information for more than just CS ), adding salt as a primer results in > > particles sized from .05 to .14 microns, as determined from electon > > microscope photography. Particles this size, according to Peter, are too > > large to form a colloidal suspension. > > Peter Lindemann's information has numerous scientific flaws. > > > particles sized from .05 to .14 microns > > That would be 50 to 140 nanometer sized particles, which are not too large to > form a colloidal suspension. Colloidal suspension can be formed by particles > up to 1000 nm. > > > >Properly made > > Ag(e) should contain particles approximately 0.01 to 0.001 microns in > > diameter (1 micron=one millionth of a meter, or 4/100,000 inch). At this > > tiny size, each particle is a cluster of perhaps 5-20 Silver atoms, with a > > positive electric charge." > > A 1 nanometer diameter particle (0.001 microns) consists of 31 atoms, not 5. A > 10 nm particle (0.010 micron) particle consists of 30978 atoms, not 20. > > See the table at: http://www.silver-colloids.com/Tables/Agradvolarea.PDF > > Silver particles have a NEGATIVE charge, not POSITIVE charge. Ions have a > positive charge. See the paper "Ions, Atoms and Charged Particles" at: > > http://www.silver-colloids.com/Papers/IonsAtoms&ChargedParticles.PDF > > frank key -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
