DragonfyTV - Nano Silver

We're Sarah and Mande and we heard about a special metal that can kill bacteria: silver. Turns out silver has been used throughout history from Egyptians to American settlers to prevent bacteria in food and wounds. We stopped by the Sciencenter in Ithaca to learn more about how nanosized silver is being used today. Nanosilver is just silver broken down into such small pieces so it is even smaller than bacteria. We learned that there are some socks with nanosilver in them to keep them stink-free.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• DragonflyTV
• PBS kids
• nano
• silver
• stinky socks
• bacteria

[divinetriplet]

The fact is that silver does not kill good bacteria!! I know guys at "Friends of the Earth" were paid by the drug companies to misrepresent and discredit nano silver. Good and bad bacteria metabolize energy in different ways and silver only disrupts the energy metabolism of pathogenic (bad) bacteria! The drug companies are so afriad of nano silver getting into the mainstream because they will lose billions on antibiotic and vaccine sales. Saying that it can harm the immune system is backwards.

[TexNano]

Super cool..The episode was filmed in Ithaca, NY. The Cornell student is Hekia Bodwitch and she is now at UC Berkeley. Hekia worked for Professor Hinestroza at the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory in the College of Human Ecology

[nattorro]

How did they get this on pbs?

Awesome.

[drutter]

cool