ANTIMICROBIAL COPPER  PROPERTIES

Copper and its alloys exhibit impressive antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal properties. But only now does our research describe how copper and its alloys exhibit these impressive properties and the processes involved. On copper surfaces, bacteria and viruses die. When a microbe lands on a copper surface, the copper releases ions, which are electrically charged particles. Those copper ions blast through the outer membranes and destroy the whole cell, including the DNA or RNA inside. Because their DNA and RNA are destroyed, it also means a bacteria or virus can’t mutate and become resistant to the copper, or pass on genes (like for antibiotic resistance) to other microbes.

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If you want to hear more of the effectiveness of copper in killing COVID-19, please click the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeKnDw7d6w&feature=youtu.be

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Click the arrows on the slides below to read some interesting facts on copper.

COPPER FOR HEALING

 

Copper has been exploited for health purposes since ancient times. Egyptian and Babylonian soldiers would sharpen their bronze swords (an alloy of copper and tin) after a battle, and place the filings in their wounds to reduce infection and speed healing.

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Copper was also used to cure medical problems in ancient China and India and is an important component of Ayurveda medicine today. Hippocrates in Greece and the Aztecs used copper oxide and copper carbonate, combined with other chemicals such as sodium carbonate, olive paste and honey, to treat skin infections.

 

Copper workers in Paris were protected from several cholera epidemics and French wineries even applied copper sulphate and slaked lime, called Bordeaux mixture, to vines to prevent fungal attack.

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