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| | Earthbeat:: 17 July 2004 - Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining |
 | | And we dissolve the silver iodide in acetone, and spray it out through these blowtorch-type devices and light it up with a sparkplug, so the acetone is burned away, the silver iodide is left in the cloud in tiny, tiny crystals, they’re quite microscopic. |
 | | So if you were to ingest silver iodide, as they did with the rainbow trout, it would pass through their alimentary canal without being taken up into the bloodstream, and it just does not have any detrimental effect, certainly not in the quantities which we use. |
 | | Now silver is actually a highly toxic chemical, and can in fact be problematic, particularly for the larval forms of vertebrates, such as tadpoles, in terms of frog species, and also phyto-plankton. |
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