I cut and pasted this from another group. As a newbie to CS things like this really confuse me. I am not sure what to believe:
One problem with using electralysis[sp?] to create "colloidal" silver, is that the solution tends to be ionic in nature. Ionic silver is colorless. It will combine with either HCl [hydrocloric acid] in the stomach or if it makes it that far [by being absorbed in the GI tract or being administered subcutaneously] to make it into the blood stream, it will combine with potassium chloride or sodium chloride to form silver chloride. It is as a true colloidal which is dark yellow in color, that silver has the antibacterial/healing properties. Colloidal silver that has a high concentration of silver particles does not look like water because silver particles, even very small particles block light from passing through, making the liquid appear darker. http://www.silver-colloids.com/Reports/reports.html Simple way to demonstrate the presence of ionic silver Here is a simple way to demonstrate ionic silver content. All that is required is that a chloride ion source to be added to a small amount of ionic silver. Normal table salt is sodium chloride (NaCl). When table salt is dissolved in water it dissociates into sodium ions and chloride ions. To demonstrate: Place a small amount (1-2 ounces) of ionic silver in a clear glass. Add a few grains of table salt. Observe that as the salt dissolves a white cloud of silver chloride forms in the solution. Eventually, the entire solution will turn cloudy. If more salt is added, the white silver chloride will become denser until all the silver ions have combined with the available chlorine ions. If no silver ions are present then no white cloud will form. "Colloidal silver generators" sold to home hobbyists all produce ionic silver solutions. See also http://www.silver-colloids.com/Book/SilverColloids-s.pdf "Silver Colloids Do they Work?" by Ronald J Gibbs -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
