Posts made in June, 2011

The therapeutic potential of silicic acid

Review by Christopher Exley, The Birchall Centre, Lennard-Jones Laboratories, Keele University, UK Reflections upon and recent insight into the mechanism of formation of hydroxyaluminosilicates and the therapeutic potential of silicic acid The chemistry of mono or ortho silicic acid (Si(OH)4) is barely considered in most chemistry texts. Mention is usually only made of its autocondensation in forming hydrated amorphous silica and its reaction with ammonium molybdate in...