Hutchson's Article: How Silver Kill Bacteria

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In this article it talks about how silver kills bacteria. The romans understood that silver helped keep spoiled foods from making them sick and ill. Historians think that this is why we call eating utensils silverware. It talks about how nanosilver particles are too tiny to see even with a microscope in the classroom. Recently scientists have been worrying about how much nanosilver has been added to so many things, and that they may be harming us.

In a 2011 study, Hutchison’s team found that silver jewelry and eating utensils were shedding nanoparticles. A scientist, Maynard, suggests that in the future there will be many problems involving nanosilver. He suspects that most of the issues will be found in the environment. Maynard also found

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