Well sure, and the stain is not permanent anyway.
 Seems CS would be the better choice and not sting the eyes.
ken


At 12:16 PM 6/19/02 -0400, you wrote:
>It is not a strong solution, 1% or so if I remember right.  Silver Nitrate
will not cause black staining unless either exposed to bright light, or a
developer is present.  Apparently the lack of bright light and a developer
prevents the silver nitrate from blinding due to reduction.
>
>Marshall
>
>Ode Coyote wrote:
>
>> Silver nitrate is a corrosive substance and will stain tissues black.
>> Silver chloride?
>> Ken
>>
>> At 08:19 PM 6/18/02 -0700, you wrote:
>> >>>>
>>
>>      Children wire sometimes born of a mother who had venereal disease.
When left untreated the child would go blind. When the Silver Chloride was
added to the eye blindness was prevented. It was a rule to treat all
children. I believe I remember hearing that the treatment sometimes burned
the eye tissue. Marlene Wa.
>>
>>           ----- Original Message -----
>>           From: Tai-Pan
>>           Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 9:57 AM
>>           To: silver-list@eskimo.com
>>           Subject: Re: CS>silver uses
>>
>>           Hi d.linen,
>>
>>           Sort of indirectly, not really for blindness.
>>
>>           Bless you, Bob Lee
>>
>>           "d.linen" wrote:
>>
>>                They used to put silver nitrate in the eyes of newborns
to prevent
>>                blindness.
>>
>>                Rich Adams wrote:
>>                >
>>                > Can ANYONE list some commercial uses of silver other
then the bandages at
>>                > silverlon and other then the burn centers use it? In
regards to healing
>>                > that is...
>>                >
>>                > Respectfully,
>>                > Rich Adams
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