Andy wrote: > Okay, we've heard some really good arguments in favor and against ionic silver and > particulate silver from both camps. A lot of important information has been conveyed > through this thread and I am grateful to all of the authors who have contributed to it. > One of the issues that caught my attention was that ionic silver forms silver chloride > when it combines with the salt in out bodies. What about particulate silver? Won't the > exposed surface area of it do the same thing? Is their some covalent bonding issue that > keeps this from happening?
Metallic silver particles do not combine with chloride to form silver chloride. > A silver coin is just a really big particle of silver and the outer surface of it will tarnish > (silver oxide) when it is exposed to air. Won't the exposed surface area of smaller silver > particles (mesosilver) form silver chloride when exposed to NaCl? It's my > understanding that the exposed surface area is what is responsible for killing > pathogens. Perhaps silver chloride is what is killing the pathogens. Once again, thanks > for all of the good contributions to this thread. Silver chloride is an insoluble salt with little or no anti-microbial properties compared to metallic silver. frank key -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
