A friend of mine (the same one who talks about colloidal silver) was telling me all about the almost magical benefits of monoatomic gold this weekend. I’ve looked it up on the web but most of the cites seem along the same lines as the colloidal silver ones.
So…what’s the StraightDope on this? What is it exactly and what is it supposed to do. And what does it ACTUALLY do, if anything?
-XT
It has an amazing power. It takes money out of your pocket and puts it in someone else’s.
I have some if you’d like to buy it… It costs three times the amount of regular gold and due to its different arrangement of atoms it looks remarkably like copper…
But man… This stuff can do ANYTHING!
It’s polyatomic bullshit.
Is this plain old regular monoatomic gold, or Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic gold? What with having the shape of a banana, nature’s most perfect fruit, the later is endowed with Spiritual Powers.
Has your friend turned blue yet?
It’s a floor wax, and a dessert topping.
I would be very interested in any scientific studies that genuinely proved they had monoatomic gold as I understand it. The smallest gold nanoparticle that I am aware of is Au[sub]13[/sub]. That would be 12 gold atoms in a dodecahedron shell and one atom in the chewy center. 13 is the first “magic number” in nanoparticle technology. Gold has a huge tendency to agregate in solution, so the ability to produce genuinely monoatomic gold would be nothing short of a technical marvel as far as I know. At least if we are talking about Au(0).
The ads that this thread is attracting are for ‘monatomic’ gold, not ‘monoatomic’ gold. Possibly ‘monatomic’ is a word of their own devising.
They are both accepted spellings.
No he hasn’t…he claims that you only turn blue ‘if you use it wrong’. I showed him the thread I made on colloidal silver (and the article Cecil recently did), but he wasn’t having any of it…thinks ya’ll are part of the conspiracy by the drug companies keeping this wonder solution from the masses. He does concede that the kind you buy over the counter is worthless…the only REAL way to do it is make it yourself (it looks a bit like swamp water to me) and drink it as soon as it’s made (I guess it doesn’t keep or something).
Anyway, I assumed monoatomic gold was the same kind of snake oil…what I wanted to know is, like with colloidal silver, what’s it SUPPOSED to do…and like in the CS thread, what side effects does it have? I assume it doesn’t turn your skin yellow…
-XT
Let us know how he turns out, would you?
I’m thinking back to the guy that turned himself blueish gray by drinking lots of silver nitrate, IIRC.
So now that Colloidal Silver has been exposed, we’re moving onto this Monatomic Gold. When that gets busted, do we go to Platinum, or Paladium? And what screwball terminology will be used with it?
First one, then the other. For a while, dichroic polycrystalline platinum will be all the rage, but will eventually be overshadowed by viscoelastic triamorphous molecular palladium which is clearly better because it has THREE adjectives.
Or some esoteric isotope of Selenium, seeing as they are all loonies.
A seach on Google scholar shows quite a few hits:
http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v89/i18/e186402
http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v83/i19/p3884_1
and more.
But I see nothing on potential health benefits.
That’s why I was kind of hoping some 'dopers knew. I did a search myself and didn’t see a lot on it health wise. My friend seemed to be under the impression it’s the greatest thing since crystal. The way he was describing it is it’s sort of like some kind of nano-technology, able to repair damaged DNA, increase life span, health and for all I know the size of your cock as well. He was going on and on about it and so I figured since I was just sitting here today in a hotel room I’d ask here in GQ and see what folk around here know. While the thread has been amusing so far it hasn’t really answered the questions I’m asking.
Does anyone know of what it’s SUPPOSED to do? And assuming one takes it what it would ACTUALLY do?
-XT
I just want to know what the heck they are calling monatomic (or monoatomic) gold. Coloidal silver at least exists in my general scientific understanding. As far as I know the physical properties of genuinely monotomic gold would be nothing short of phenomenal. Now, naqnoparticles aren’t my specialty, but from what I understand the quantum effects of gold nanoparticles considerably larger than monatomic are a major focus of modern research. To be able to isolate large quantities of stable isolated atoms of gold sounds like it would be worthy a cover of Nature or Science to me.
Thanks for the titles DrDeth, they confirm my suspicions. If you’ll notice they are ab initio/DFT computational papers on the theoretical possibilities of monotomic gold structures. In other words, according to these papers, these things are not even remotely a physical reality yet.
With a little help, we could popularize rehybridized diamond as an ancient technique to remove biological contaminants. We could even produce literature that demonstrates it’s properties as long as they don’t know what activated carbon is.
Pretty much anything, depending on which particular crackpot you’re addressing at the time.
Nothing. Zip. Nada. Jack squat.
Nope- gold squat. It’d likely pass right through your system and make your BM all shiney.
WarmNPrickly- you’re welcome. Anyone want some quote from those papers? Pretty dull.
Dons tin foil hat and dives into bits of the web that rational folk wisely avoid…