I feel like a different person ever since I started taking colloidal silver!

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In the very early days, when people used salt to speed up making their colloidal silver, they had no idea whether they’d made anything until the solution turned yellow. That indicated that they had made enough large particles to begin to block out the blue spectrum of ambient light, leaving red and green, yielding a yellow tint. The darker the yellow hue, the higher the PPM value. That was true, but it had nothing to do with silver ions and the solution’s ability to kill microbes. Here is a picture of a chart that people used to see what PPM value they had made during that time.
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Please note:
These are pictures of chemically produced colloidal silver.
EIS, electrically isolated silver, is completely clear up to 50 ppm.
Looking from left to right we see 5 to 50 ppm shades.
When I first started making colloidal silver, I knew that I only wanted small particles. I knew that by the time I had generated particles large enough to turn the solution yellow, the particles were larger than I wanted. Smaller particles, for a given PPM, have a greater surface area. It only made sense to me that in order to kill a microbe, the silver had to contact the microbe. There was also the fact the large particles would tend to lodge in areas of your body such as your skin and fingernails. Enough of this would turn these areas blue.

We have come a long way since then. I think we’ve come to the point where we should stop using the term colloidal. With silver ions, individual atoms, we have a silver solution, not a silver colloid. This change in the naming of what we are interested in the making would also eliminate the confusion caused by those who include ingredients other than pure water and pure silver. These consist of all sorts of things, proteins, acids, sugars, and who knows what. That enables some marketers to claim very high PPM values. PPM of what? Who knows? It gives the whole effort a bad name. That may be the biggest problem that we have with the FDA. We need to set some standards. Using the straightforward methods outlined on this thread, we can all make 10 to 15 ppm clear silver solutions reliably. With advanced automated techniques and an extended length of time, we will soon make a 50 ppm clear silver solution. I think it would be of great benefit for us to agree on what we’re trying to accomplish.

you'll never stop with your BS do you ?