silver as antimicrobe Re: distinguishing plate silver from solid silver

From: Archimedes Plutonium (a_plutonium_at_iw.net)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:59:37 -0600

I did some searching on the Internet to see if anyone outlines how silver can be an
antimicrobial. As I suspected, I found none because of a huge amount of chatter of
"medical application". The interface of making money versus the posts of "pure
science". Ads versus science and too bad that ads outnumber the basic science.

If I had an educated guess for the mechanism would be what Marshall wrote about silver
corroding in contact with sulfur. So that silver acts as a sponge and sponges away the
sulfur in bacteria leaving them to die. So that any bacteria that require sulfur would
be killed on exposure to elemental-silver. But virus do not require sulfur, I hazard
to guess and so silver is not a viricide. But many species, perhaps all species of
bacteria require sulfur in their constitution and thus silver can kill them.

But the other issue I raise is whether silver is benign to human body should we
unfortunately injest too much silver? I would hazard to guess that it is dangerous to
have alot of silver in the human body. For just as it sponges away sulfur from
bacteria, it would remove sulfur from vital tissue in the human body since sulfur is
essential for animals.

I think not enough real, and truthful science has been done on silver as a biological
agent and that this commercialization of silver has had too much of a ad and myth and
falsehoods on silver. So I encourage some real scientists in real laboratories to give
us a full detailed report on silver as a biological agent and how it kills bacteria
and to what extent it kills microbes and to what extent silver in human body
consumption is harmful.

When something becomes commercial such as a bacteria-cide or microbe-cide then the
general public usually gets barraged with falsehoods and alot of scam artists selling
silver for consumption. So we need the real science done by science researchers for
the full truth.

Archimedes Plutonium
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