colloidal silver (English, noun)
expansion: colloidal silver (plural colloidal silvers)
Senses:
topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
pseudoscience
sciences
glosses: 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
Forms:
form: colloidal silvers
tags: plural