colloidal silver

English

Noun

colloidal silver (plural colloidal silvers)

(alternative medicine, pseudoscience) colloid consisting of silver particles suspended in liquid, originally used by doctors from the early 20th century until the 1940s (when antibiotics emerged) and then experiencing a revival from about 1990, when it was marketed with scientifically unsupported claims of it being an essential mineral supplement, or that it can prevent or treat numerous diseases

Translations

Translations

Finnish: kolloidinen hopea
German: kolloidales Silber n
Polish: srebro koloidalne n

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