The benefits of colloidal silver in the human body are produced by the nanometer sized metallic silver particles not the ions. In most colloidal silver products a large quantity of ionic silver is produced as a by-product of generating the silver particles. The prominent methods of production are electrochemical processes using either low voltage DC current or high voltage AC. Both the…
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Are the silver particles made of single atoms of silver?
A single silver atom can be considered to be an atomic-sized particle of metallic silver. It is the smallest size of silver matter that exists. The diameter of a single silver atom is 0.288 nm. While it is theoretically possible to have a particle of metallic silver that consists of a single atom, in practice particles…
Why do the silver colloidal particles stay suspended and not fall to bottom?
The nanometer size particles of silver possess an electric charge that results in mutual repulsion of the particles and causes them to be dispersed throughout the solution. This charge is called zeta potential and is negative.
What is a silver solution?
A silver solution contains silver ions in solution with a solvent. The solvent is usually water. A solution which contains only silver ions and no silver particles is a silver solution.
What happens to the silver ions in solution when the water is evaporated?
Silver ions in a solution cannot exist without water, so when the water is evaporated the silver ions (cations) must combine with an available anion to form a compound. For example, if the predominant anions present in a silver colloid solution were hydroxide and carbonate, the compounds thus formed upon evaporation would be silver hydroxide and silver carbonate. Silver…