As outlined in a post earlier today, I believe that any ions of silver in the
blood (or compounds), will quickly plate out on any silver particles they come 
in
contact with increasing their size slightly.  If you have CS particles in the
blood, then the particles should get slightly larger, if you do not, then they
will reduce to silver atoms upon exposure to light in the skin, and then the 
rest
of the silver ions will plate out on those in the skin.  If they grow too large
too fast, it could cause argyria.

Interesting, colloidal silver may be very good at preventing argyria if ionic
silver or silver compounds are in the blood stream.

Marshall

cvincer wrote:

> Hi Frank,
> Any idea if the silver ions inside the body can combine to form particles
> that have antibacterial properties?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vince
>
> Frank Key writes:
>
> > Mike wrote:
> >
> >> That said, I do have to ask:  Why should we expect the silver in the
> >> bloodstream still to be ionic? If it is complexed with something that
> >> the body is using as a transport mechanism, is there any reason to see
> >> it in a test for silver ions?
> >
> > Perhaps the issue of looking for ionic silver in the bloodstream may stem
> > from the in vitro tests of ionic silver that demonstrate it killing
> > pathogens in the lab. The claims imply that if ionic silver can kill
> > pathogens in a petri dish, it can do the same thing in the bloodstream. The
> > problem is that no one has ever found that silver ions can exist inside the
> > human body.
> >
>
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