Thanks again, Terry I have just finished reading and enjoying part 2 and compliment you on reading and research you have done to be able to share this with us! Sincerely, _______________________________________ Richard Harris, 58 Year FL Pharmacist 448 West Juniata Street Clermont, FL 34711 www.rharrisinc.com http://www.seasilver.com/reh http://healthandhealing.blogspot.com
-----Original Message----- From: Terry Chamberlin [mailto:tcj...@yahoo.ca] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 10:20 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS> Then theres a last hypocrisy that needs attention. The opponents of silver and CS must scour the literature to find any evidence that the product we are so enthusiastic about might actually be harmful in any way, and the evidence they do find is rare and suspect at best, non-existent at worst. But lets say that there are a couple or even a dozen cases that indicate that folks who overdose on silver (although, again, which silver?), turn gray or whatever. So what? 300+ people every YEAR die from aspirin overdose, and it is available without prescription, and what actual health benefit does aspirin give anyone? How many people each year die from prescription drugs, yet they are freely available. To have to diligently search to even find what might be a problem with silver, while steadfastly ignoring the slaughter that is all around us is the height of hypocrisy, in my opinion. Finally, there is a great need to agree on the same vocabulary. We use the word colloidal to refer to very small particles of silver that are floating around in the water. These particles are not dissolved into the water, they are suspended in the water, and held in suspension by their identical charge, which makes them repel each other like two north ends of two magnets. So far, that is the same way the scientific community uses that word (or pretty much). But we use the word ionic to refer to particles that are so small that they are considered to be dissolved into the water, like a teaspoon of sugar stirred into a glass of water. Colloids can fall out of suspension and sink to the bottom (from light, or magnetism, or freezing), but we do not believe that ionic particles behave in that way. In other words, suspensions can settle out, but solutions cannot. We use these arbitrary definitions because science does not give us words or terms that differentiate between particles in suspension and particles in solution, except to say particles in suspension and particles in solution. We differentiate between colloidal/EIS silver and every other form of silver because we believe that is the difference between safe and unsafe silver. In fact, the properties of silver and its affects upon the human body change considerably as the size decreases, and as it becomes pure (not joined to other substances). Dr. Robert Demling is the first I have seen who identifies these property changes: http://www.cesil.com/leaderforchemist/articoli/inglese/7demlinging/7demlingi ng.htm Silver has been used for centuries to prevent and treat a variety of diseases, most notably infections. It has been well documented that silver coins were used in ancient Greece and Rome as a disinfectant for the storage of water and other liquids. (1,2) More recently, NASA still uses silver to maintain water purity on the space shuttle. Silver has extremely potent antimicrobial properties, as only one part per 100 million of elemental silver is an effective antimicrobial in a solution. Free silver ions, or radicals, are known to be the active antimicrobial agent. In order to achieve a bactericidal effect, silver ions must be available in solution at the bacterial surface. Efficacy depends on the aqueous concentration of these ions. Silver ions appear to kill micro-organisms instantly by blocking the respiratory enzyme system (energy production), as well as altering microbe DNA and the cell wall, while having no toxic effect on human cells in vivo. Silver in solution has been used as an antimicrobial for wound management for nearly a century. However, crystalline silver is quite insoluble in water and in dilute acids making the available silver cation concentration inadequate for use as an antimicrobial on a wound surface. Beginning in the 1920s, a small electrical charge was passed thru water and silver crystals in order to obtain an effective silver (electro-colloidal) ion solution to be used topically on wounds. The charged silver solutions (electro-colloidal) were approved in the 1920s by the FDA for use as an antibacterial agent. (3) Some wound centers still use these solutions although silver ions in solution are quite unstable. In addition to its recognized antibacterial properties, beginning with the electro-colloidal elemental form, silver solutions have been reported to improve the healing of indolent wounds and to regenerate damaged tissue. The description of decreased rubor in wounds also reflects an anti-inflammatory property of silver. More recent information has provided at least a hypotheses as to the mechanism of silvers pro-healing and anti-inflammatory effects. Initial literature reports on the use of pure silver, mainly in the electro-colloidal form, occurred prior to the 1940s when pure silver was still being used. After 1940 a host of systemic antibiotics became prevalent, decreasing the use of silver except as a topical agent. During this transition, silver was complexed as a salt (e.g. silver nitrate and silver sulfadiazine) or other compound (e.g. silver protein) to increase the available silver ion concentration. These silver complexes remain a popular topical antimicrobial agent for the care of wounds. Silver itself is considered to be non-toxic to human cells in vivo. (4) The only reported complication is the cosmetic abnormality argyria caused by precipitation of silver salts in the skin and leading to a blue-gray color. (2) The property of matter depends on size and many of the chemical and physical characteristics change significantly when matter is reduced in size.11,12 Nanotechnology is a general term that refers to a relatively new frontier of scientific endeavor. The prefix nano signifies one-billionth. Therefore, a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, a nanogram is one-billionth of a gram. Ten hydrogen atoms placed side by side measures one nanometer in length. Silver crystals sputtered under normal vapor deposit conditions result in tightly adherent crystals of 100-900nm in diameter. Decreasing crystal volume by nanotechnology markedly increases the exposed surface area of the crystal, which increases the available surface for chemical reactions to take place over a shorter time period. Decreasing the particle size will also, in general, change the physical/chemical properties of the material. Examples of changed properties resulting from nano-sized metals, include increased superconductivity and increased optical and electrical properties. Nanosizing can also lead to a more economical utilization of expensive materials - meaning that can use less material because the reactions are more efficient. Although not yet specifically defined, it is clear that some of the properties of silver in a nanocrystal are quite different than the typical crystal. A large portion of the silver is available as grain or interphase boundaries, considered by some to be a new form of matter. Although Dr. Demling is discussing a more specific type of CS than we produce (I am not acquainted with his production methods, although he does mention Silver crystals sputtered), he is establishing the concepts of differing forms and sizes of silver particles behaving in different ways. The above quotes are only a part of his commentary. The key dynamic here is that the smaller the particles of silver, the more the laws governing the behavior of those particles change. He affirms that safety increases, as well as efficacy, as the particles decrease in size. This is part of the reason that CS/EIS should be crystal clear in color, as this indicates vary small particle size. Although we are not making nanotechnology CS, we are making something far different, and far safer, than the clumsy, chemicalized substances that doctors have utilized in the past, and by which they try to measure the safety/effectiveness of the CS/EIS that we make. But, as Dr. Demling commented, this is "considered by some to be a new form of matter", and we need a new vocabulary to describe it. The similarity between silver nitrate, silver arsphemamine and other insoluble silver salts is about like the similarity between a novel and the movie. They both have the same title, but thats about it. 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