Nenah Sylver wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marshall Dudley" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 10:51 AM > Subject: Re: CS>Ingesting silver chloride > > >I am not surprised, since I believe that silver chloride becomes colloidal > > silver in the blood stream. However taking silver chloride without > > colloidal silver runs the risk of giving one argyria, which EIS will not. > > The EIS end up about 90% silver chloride and 10% colloidal silver upon > > reaching the stomach, and the colloidal portion acts as a preventative of > > argyria in the body. > > > > Marshall > > Marshall, > Can you please explain to us brain-tired and non-chemistry oriented persons > WHY and HOW the colloidal part of CS "acts as a preventative of argyria in > the body" when silver compounds are also there? > > Thanks. > Nenah
I think I have covered this 3 or 4 times already. Basically you have to understand the photographic process, and how argyria is formed. First the photographic process: 1. silver salts are exposed to light. The salts reduce to silver particles. This is called the virtual image. 2. when exposed to a developer at a ph of over 7, then additional silver salts plate out on the atoms and particles produced in #1. Thus the particles grow, and become black colored, making the print. Now for the chemistry of silver in the body. If silver salts reach the blood stream they will be in a liquid that has a ph over 7, and that contains a number of compounds that can act as developers, such as caffeine. Thus both the reduction by light as well as the development process can and will both take place. Initially the salts cannot find anything to plate out on, so they circulate until some of them get reduced in the skin by light. Then the other silver salts rapidly plate out on those particles, making them grow so fast they get stuck and leave the skin black or blue. However if you have colloidal silver in the blood stream, then the silver salts will immediately plate out on them approximately doubling their size. The particles of silver act as scavengers for silver salts. The result is that silver salts disappear very rapidly from the blood stream, long before they can get to the skin to get exposed to light and developed. So instead of a few silver particles growing tremendously in the skin, you have huge number of silver particles growing by an amount that is inconsequential. Thus colloidal silver in the blood stream acts as a prophylactic against argyria. That is why there has never been one case of a person getting argyria from properly made EIS, despite most of it being 90% to 95% silver oxide and silver hydroxide which converts to silver chloride in the stomach, yet silver chloride by itself will cause argyria. Marshall -- 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: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
