Silver – The Past, Present, and Future
Few metals are as precious as silver, a soft, white, lustrous transition metal. From the finest jewellery to the wiring in precision electronics, silver is a truly unique element. But are you aware that silver's 
become a part of everyday life. Many white goods are now impregnated with silver nano-particles, along with clothes that contain silver within their threads. The reason for the use of silver in so many day to day objects is quite simple. Silver has several rare properties, along with a few 
unique ones. For example, silver has the highest electrical conductivity of any element, and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal. Another rare property is the metals ability to kill bacteria, mould, yeast and fungus, making it the natural choice as a permanent antibacterial agent in many goods. We now have socks that never smell and fridges that are always clean, along with washing machines that can sterilise clothes without the use of chemicals.
Silver has been used as a medicine and preservative by many cultures throughout known history. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, wrote that silver had beneficial healing and anti-disease 
properties. Ancient civilizations used to store water, wine and vinegar in silver bottles to prevent spoiling. In Asia, food is wrapped in silver foil to preserve its freshness. The early American settlers used to place a silver dollar in a bucket of river water to make it safe to drink. In the early 1900s people would put silver coins in milk bottles to
prolong the milks freshness. We have all heard the saying ‘...born with a silver spoon in their mouth’. This has much more to do with health that wealth, as silver spoon placed in a newborns mouth was believed to protect against the plague.
Silver compounds were used to prevent infections in World War 1 before the advent of antibiotics. Silver nitrate solution was a "standard of care", but was largely replaced by silver sulfadiazine cream (SSD cream), for the antibacterial and antibiotic treatment of serious burns until the late 1990s. Now, other options such as silver-coated dressings (activated silver dressings), are used in addition to SSD cream.
The 1920s saw Nobel Prize winning scientists develop ways of extracting particles of silver that could be suspended in a solution for human consumption. These silver particles were relatively large and needed to be used in high concentrations to make this type of colloidal silver effective. As we move forward to present day, a new form of silver solution called Silver Sol has been developed and patented by American Biotech Labs. Silver Sol uses a unique manufacturing process that produces tiny 
ionic coated colloidal nano-particles of pure silver with one less electron than standard colloidal silver. These differences make a uniquely effective product that continues to kill viruses and bacteria with a catalytic effect, using only the tiniest amounts of silver, so being the safest and most effective silver solution for human consumption.
Studies have shown that Silver Sol can kill 99.5% of the MRSA bug within one hour. The skin can be kept free of viruses and bacteria for up to four hours after just one application. This new silver solution is such a valuable product that it has been stockpiled by the US as weapon against Bio-terrorism.
The future looks even better for silver. If you were to search ‘medical uses of silver’ in your favourite search engine you will get close to 10,000,000 entries.
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