Doesn't it take an actual atmospheric electric arc to make nitric acid
which then forms silver nitrate when it reacts with silver?
 I don't recall seeing any arcing in a LVDC setup.

Ode 


At 09:47 AM 9/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>One has to look at quantities.  The amount of AgNO3 produced by a low voltage
>system using distilled water should be trivial. Don't forget that the medical
>community used AgNO3 for medicine for decades, and they did not indicate
>anything was wrong with it then. It is still used in newborn babies' eyes in
>many hospitals worldwide.  The amount the baby receives is far more than one
>would ever get from taking any CS made by the LVDC method.
>
>Chck the msds on it http://www.hummelcroton.com/agno3_m.html
>
>RTECS Number:                        VW4725000
>       Routes of Exposure:            Eye contact. Ingestion. Inhalation.
Skin
>contact.
>       Toxicity Data:                     ORAL LD50: 50 mg/Kg(orl-mus)
>       Chronic Toxic Effects:         Overexposure to silver may cause
>argyria.
>       Acute Toxic Effects:            Irritating to the skin and eyes on
>contact. Inhalation will cause irritation to the lungs
>                          and mucus membrane. Irritation to the eyes will
>cause watering and redness.
>                          Reddening, scaling, and itching are characteristics
>of skin inflammation. Follow safe
>                          industrial hygiene practices and always wear
>protective equipment when handling this
>                          compound.
>Thus the only cronic effect is argyria, and we all know how much silver that
>takes.  The LD50 is 40mg/Kg, which would be 5 grams of it for a 100 KG
>person.  At 1 ppm, that would require 5,000 liters of CS.  The water would
>kill you first.
>
>Marshall
>
>
>Warren Jefferson wrote:
>
>>   Hello All,
>>
>> I thought you might like to know what Stephen Quinto  of
>> natural-immunogencis.com thinks about home made CS. He wrote me the
>> following after reading the manuscript for my upcoming book "Colloidal
>> Silver Today" due out in Oct. 03.  I think this issue of AgNO3 should be
>> addressed . There are a lot of folks making CS at home.  Are we at risk?
>> Comments?
>>
>> "We do not really condone the home-making of CS.  One of the contaminants
>> (AgNO3) is toxic and cumulative in the human body. The equipment necessary
>> to avoid this is generally beyond the ability of the maker. And the burden
>> of so much elemental silver that is a certainty from such products dilutes
>> the efforts the body needs to deal with healing issues."
>>
>> Warren
>>
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