What is Colloidal Silver?

To put it simply, colloidal silver is liquid silver, but of course it really isn't that simple. This is not a silver liquid that has been melted from solid silver. Instead it is tiny particles of silver that are suspended in water. These particles do not dissolve, they simply remain suspended in the water. At times, people use the term colloidal silver to refer to different things because silver takes on different forms. Colloidal silver could be silver colloids, ionic silver, ionic silver compounds or silver proteins in water.

Who would want silver suspended in water, you wonder? Isn't silver better if you can wear it as silver jewelry, use it as silver flatware, or spend it as silver coins? At one point in time people were positive that silver could cure various ailments.

Research has found that colloidal silver does not have the curative properties that people once thought it had. Not only has it been found that silver does not help heal, in some cases it appears that ingesting or applying colloidal silver topically can actually harm a person.

Before the discovery of penicillin, colloidal silver was considered to be a useful antibiotic. Today, you may see questionable ads and dubious commercials touting colloidal silver. But before the 1930s, no one had cast doubt on its medical benefits, so even doctors prescribed colloidal silver to their patients.

You can still find colloidal silver in health food stores and at places where you can purchase alternative medicine. So despite the fact that claims that colloidal silver is good for one's health, people still sell silver in this suspended liquid form.

Colloidal silver is most likely not very helpful to humans, but selling silver in some of its other forms can be very beneficial. When you sell silver to a silver buyer you can rest assured that you will get something that will be of great benefit to you: cash for silver. Mind you, getting cash for silver will not cure the common cold as some people claim that colloidal silver will, but it can add some heft to your pocketbook, and that is always helpful.

When you sell silver, be it sterling silver jewelry, silver coins and bars or silver flatware, you will feel a lot better. You will have relieved yourself of unused silver and replaced it with money that you can use.