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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
IONPURE from Ishizuka Glass - A Soluble Glass
Glass is generally considered as a material with high chemical inertness due to its strong network structure. However, it is possible to lower this chemical inertness by continuously altering its structure, especially in water.
On the other hand, glass has another interesting property, which retains metal as ions. The combination of this property and the above technology has enabled Ishizuka to create glass with low chemical inertness, which can also retain anti-microbial metal ions such as silver and copper. With the presence of water or moisture, the glass will release these metal ions gradually to function as anti-microbial material. It is well known that these ion have an antimicrobial effect. For example, silverware and copperware has been known to prevent the decay of water and food since the ancient times.
With the presence of moisture, IONPURE releases a few Ag ions gradually. Ag ion has an ability to strongly bind to cellular enzyme of microbes and inhibit enzyme activity of cell wall, membrane, and nucleic acids.
In a word, as microbes charged with minus on their surface, Ag ions that have plus are drawn toward microbes, and disturb their electric balance. so that microbes burst their cell wall and are extinguished.
Otherwise, as Ag ions are taken into microbes, they react and bond to the cellular enzyme microbes. This inhibits enzyme activity and multiplication of microbes, thus extinguishing the microbes.
Please contact your local Walsh & Associates, Inc. sales representative for more information on IONPURE.
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