{"id":1358,"date":"2016-02-05T09:45:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2023-10-09T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T17:11:46","slug":"lifeforcecolloidalsilver-com-misinformation-dispelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"LifeforceColloidalSilver.com Misinformation Dispelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, Mike from Lifeforcecolloidalsilver.com answered a customers question about an excellent\u00a0youtube video by zerofossilfuel<\/a><\/span> that was full of Mike’s disinformation. \u00a0Zero was demonstrating making true colloidal silver using a constant current system with sodium carbonate as an electrolyte and corn syrup as a reducing agent to convert ionic silver to colloidal silver. \u00a0This is a tried and true method, and a similar method is used by bonafide lab researchers when researching the properties of silver colloids.<\/p>\n

You can see this misinformation post here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Lets look at the 3 main responses by Lifeforce Mike:<\/p>\n

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  1. Mike says the bubble coming off the cathode are from electrolyzing water. \u00a0Well Mike, I’m afraid thats not true. \u00a0At the cathode, sodium ions are being reduced to sodium metal, but sodium metal reacts violently with water creating sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. \u00a0This is where the hydrogen comes from. Mike goes on to claim that the yellow color of the colloid comes from silver carbonate, but this is also untrue. \u00a0If Lifeforce Mike actually knew his chemistry, he would know that dissolving sodium carbonate in water produces sodium hydroxide and carbonic acid. \u00a0But carbonic acid is a weak acid with a kA (acid dissociation constant )of about 4.3X10-7<\/sup>. That means that only 1 out of 2.2 million carbonic acid molecules dissociate into ions, whereas all of the sodium remains as ions. \u00a0IE: \u00a0There are 2.2 million more hydroxide ions than carbonate ions. \u00a0So the amount of silver carbonate created is negligible<\/li>\n
  2. Next, Lifeforce Mike goes on to say that the Karo corn syrup together with the sodium carbonate make sodium gluconate. \u00a0This is also untrue, as all sodium compounds in water totally dissociate. \u00a0What does happen is that the sodium hydroxide from hydrolyzing the sodium carbonate converts the glucose molecule from a ring structure to a linear structure activating it as a reducing agent for silver. \u00a0Mike goes on to say now that the sugar caramelizes which causes the yellow color in the solution. \u00a0Of course, this is easily disproven simply by mixing the sodium carbonate and Karo to see if it turns yellow…. it does not. \u00a0I guess Mike is too lazy to test that.<\/li>\n
  3. Mike goes on to criticize Zero for not using the Tyndall test to see if a colloid was produced. \u00a0Zero did not have to do this test because he already knew what he had made, as he had followed the scientific method of producing it. \u00a0Also, a strong positive Tyndall effect is not really desirable. \u00a0The Tyndall effect shows large particles, large enough to reflect light. \u00a0Silver nanoparticles are much smaller than light waves and hence do not reflect light. \u00a0So a positive Tyndall means the particles are not small enough to be therapeutically effective. \u00a0Silver nanoparticles instead exhibit the Plasmon Resonance effect which makes them filter out\u00a0light of a specific frequency\/wavelength, normally blue light. \u00a0This leaves red and green which the eye sees as yellow color.Mike yet makes another mistake by saying that ionic silver is tasteless while silver nanoparticles taste metallic. \u00a0The human tongue’s taste buds are sensitive only to ions and very small proteins. \u00a0 Being much larger than ions or proteins, silver nanoparticles cannot trigger taste buds, and therefore are tasteless.Mike’s last bone of contention is that ZeroFossil used 0.999 pure silver instead of 0.9999. \u00a0Mike thinks this bad because of the possible contaminants in 0.999 silver. \u00a0The truth is that any contaminants caused by the 0.999 silver will be in the parts per billion range, which is far purer than any drinking water, and is absolutely no health hazard. \u00a0There is nothing wrong with using 0.9999 purity silver, but there is also no need to worry about it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In summation, Lifeforce Mike is a good example of how a little knowledge without understanding is a bad thing.<\/p>\n

    In 2008, I started the colloidal silver forum<\/a><\/span> to combat the plethora of misinformation about colloidal silver which pollutes the internet. \u00a0It seems to be a losing battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Recently, Mike from Lifeforcecolloidalsilver.com answered a customers question about an excellent\u00a0youtube video by zerofossilfuel that was full of Mike’s disinformation. \u00a0Zero was demonstrating making true colloidal silver using a constant current system with sodium carbonate as an electrolyte and corn …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wgpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}