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So does silver, to the point it’s used in advanced wound dressing. They aren’t cheap though - ask my insurance company! There isn’t that much silver in them, bu
by TylerE 4y ago
So does silver, to the point it’s used in advanced wound dressing. They aren’t cheap though - ask my insurance company! There isn’t that much silver in them, but a 2x2” square is about $4 or so, compared to a few cents for a plain gauze pad.
- oliveshell 4y agoThese properties also cause some people to attempt injecting or swallowing colloidal silver as a purported panacea, sometimes with unintended results: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
- kwhitefoot 4y agoSilver is 0.72 USD/g at the moment so the price of silver alone does not account for the difference in price. A two inch square piece of silver weighing a gram would be more than a tenth of a millimetre thick.