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Activity: The Curious Case of Colloidal Silver

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Let’s put your investigative skills to work! Imagine you have a bad cold and stuffy nose that's driving you crazy. Over-the-counter medicines don't seem to be helping much. So you take to Google to look for something, anything to bring relief. In your research, you discover a site claiming that colloidal silver could help your cold. You pull up a couple other sites about colloidal silver and put them all in conversation with each other. Open the document, " CCOW Activity: The Curious Case of Colloidal Silver,below to visit each site, then answer the questions.