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To: Grainne who wrote (94111)	1/20/2005 1:38:32 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 108807

Well, I don't know for sure. The condition was actually caused by small particles of silver. It is well known as a condition - most recently notable by the New Age use of colloidal silver as a "safe" antimicrobial. Argyria as a disease? Well there has to be some dis-ease, right? Being blue (not emotionally, but due to the optical properties of small, inert grains of silver) is not a good thing, but seems short of a normal "disease", but the literature I found (and Wikipedia) considers it one. I wouldn't want to waste the term poison for something that produces a blue skin condition in rare cases by people doing stupid things. Believe me, I'm about as sensitive to the idea of poison as ANYONE I know (my original education was the geology of groundwater, including physics and geochemistry). There are things that we should worry a whole lot more about - and these things are everywhere. If I had a billion dollars to do something, it wouldn't be to remove Teflon or colloidal silver from the environment. I would go after arsenic in the drinking water of the 3rd world (or rural America) or something like bioremdiation of Superfund Sites. agiweb.org