In article <[email protected]>, Marshall Dudley <[email protected]> wrote: >"John A. Stanley" wrote: > >> Until this morning everything I had read seemed to indicate that there >> were no documented cases of argyria from use of CS. But, there was a >> link posted on the Yahoo CS club >> >> http://www.chetday.com/colloidalsilvergenerator.htm >> [snip]
>The ppms are so high on 2 of them, I seriously doubt that they were >colloidal silver. True properly made CS should never be more than about 20 >ppm. I suspect they were either silver compounds or MSP, which we already >know can give argyria. The chetday.com page also says, "Now you have high quality CS in about 5 PPM. Some scoundrels claim their CS is 100-800 PPM. This is rubbish. At such concentrations the particles would agglomerate forming much larger particles. Basic chemistry." That makes me wonder whether large particle sizes might be implicated in argyria. I have no experience with commercially prepared CS, but there is CS at our local healthfood store with a claimed concentration of 200ppm. The setting I use on my Colloid Master is supposed to make CS in the 5ppm range, and I use a bubbler to keep particle size down. What frustrates me most about the CS phenomenon is all the conflicting information and info that doesn't quite sound right. E.g., it is claimed that H2O2 added to CS will ionize the metal particles. But, H2O2 is a powerful oxidizing agent; wouldn't it just create silver oxide? Isn't silver oxide the gray stuff you *don't* want in your CS? But, then, I would think bubbling air through the water would oxygenate it and make silver oxide formation more likely, but I was getting a lot more gray stuff when I wasn't using a bubbler. Go figure. >If I can make it by the research library, I will try and find those articles >in their entirety. Thanks! That would be great! -- John A. Stanley [email protected] -- 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: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
