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Colloidal Silver

January 21, 2011

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Colloidal Silver

Here at SilverCoinCommerce™ we pride ourselves on being open minded. After all, it will take motivated, open-minded people to revert back to the use of -real money- in the daily exchange of goods and services. And in light of this we’ll sometimes throw a twist at things, and today seems as good as any other to talk about colloidal silver.

So what is colloidal silver? Simply put, colloidal silver is a liquid suspension of microscopic silver particles. Typically, the silver brew is promoted as an alternative medicine cure-all. Considering silver’s anti-microbial properties it might make sense to go ahead and drink up a colloidal silver cocktail. However. Stop. Consider. Argyria. Never heard of it? Silver does this super cool thing (if you like the color blue). In animals and humans, silver can accumulate in the body and this results in an accumulation of silver or silver sulfide particles in the skin. Remember’s silver use in photography? Well silver/silver sulfide particles do the same thing in skin when exposed to light. Drink enough colloidal silver and you could potentially develop the condition of Argyria, or what we here at SCC refer to as smurfamorphamosis.

this guy turned blue from colloidal silver

Drink up!

Pete Skenandore

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Japan Researchers Create Palladium using Silver Nanotechnology

January 2, 2011

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About Palladium

Palladium is an element with the chemical symbol Pd. It is a rare silvery-white metal discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in 1983. William named palladium after the astroid Pallas.

Palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, osmium are a group of elements commonly referred to as the platinum group metals (PGMs).

One in four goods manufactured today either contain platinum group metals or has manufacturing processes facilitated by PGMs.

Over half the supply of palladium goes into catalytic converters. Other uses of palladium are computers, mobile phones, capacitors, component plating, televisions, dentistry, medicine, fuel cells, and jewelry.

The rarity of the platinum group metals means extraordinary prices.

-Now you know why that catalytic converter you had to replace cost so much.-

The Research

University professor Hiroshi Kitagawa and his team figured out a way to mix rhodium and silver to produce a new composite metal with similar properties to palladium.

The process nebulises the rhodium and silver by gradually mixing them with heated alcohol. This produced stable material at the atomic level.

DOING THE MATH:

As of this writing rhodium is $2380.00 per ounce, silver is at $30.90 per ounce and palladium is $800.00 per ounce. So, take one ounce of rhodium at $2380. and one ounce of silver at $30.90 and you might net two ounces of palladium-like material. For only $2410.90 + expenses. Or, for around the same cost, you could just buy 3 ounces of real palladium.

Keep working to keep the dream of alchemy alive boys.

Sources:
Kitco.com
Physorg.com
Wikipedia.com
Luxurypalladium.com -image-

Pete Skenandore

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