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A few months ago I purchased 6 pairs of socks, 3 for myself and 3 for my girlfriend. I bought them for the antibacterial qualities as well as helping for foot odour. In the past I have had Tinea and Itchy feet. The socks have worked well for both of us. Our feet dont sweat as much, the odour is nearly gone and my feet dont itch. Id definitely buy the socks again
Andrew Redding Redfern NSW Australia
What is "nano silver"
Nano silver is literally silver dust—a very special, super fine silver dust!
The prefix 'nano' means 'one billionth', so whereas a millimetre means a thousandth of a metre, a nanometre is a billionth of metre. In the case of nano silver, the nano prefix is referring to the size of the metal dust particles. For example, in our nano silver solution, we used particles of silver that are usually less than 4.5 nanometres in diameter. This is hundreds of times smaller than a single bacterium!
Why is nano silver so special? Well, the small size of the particles is important for two reasons:
- Cost — silver is expensive.
- Efficacy — only the silver on the surface has effect.
Creating nanometer sized particles addresses these two issues at the same time. Imagine a football made of solid silver. It would be very expensive first of all because it was so big; and secondly, it wouldn't be very good at killing bacteria because only the silver on the surface is available to touch bacteria—all of the silver on the inside of the ball is effectively wasted. Now, if we cut the football into two halves we immediately expose some more of the silver on the inside to get to work on bacteria. In fact, each time we divide a ball into two balls we increase the "available surface area" by about 25% and yet the volume or mass of silver used stays the same.
So, silver nano dust, by virtue of the tiny size of its particles, has an absolutely enormous available surface area; almost all the silver is exposed and very little is tucked away hiding inside the particles. This means that very little dust (in terms of weight and therefore cost) is needed to be effective as an anti-bacterial.
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