Posted on 06/06/2011 7:37:19 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
In humans we just call it liver failure with a heaping side of yellow jaundice. If we keep it up Jeffery Feiger will be suing every copper product producer in America.
I'll shut up now.
That’s fancy. I got a Radio Shack 13.5/30 AC adapter with alligator clips attached and a piece of styrofoam that I got at the dollar store where you have that nice clear plastic plate. Just push the 9999 wire through two holes.
I didn’t know that horseshoes crabs were Vulcan.....
“You’ll never take me alive, Coppah!”
Maybe we should dig out the silver plate tableware and pack away the stainless.
When I was a kid I lived in a small dairy town. Everyone spread cow manure on their garden in the fall and some would again in the spring. I can remember eating carrots out of the garden. Pull em wipe the dirt of on your shirt and eat. I don’t recall ever getting sick from that.
You know, there is likely something to that. Perhaps silver was used for eating and serving utensils, at least for the rich, and helped with their health, whether they were aware of that or not.
Its structure consist of -[Ag-CN]- chains in which the linear two-coordinate Ag+ ions, typical of silver(I) and other d10 ions are bridge by the cyanide ions. (This is the same binding mode as seen in the more famous case of Prussian blue.) These chains then pack hexagonally with adjacent chains ofset by +/- 1/3 of the “c” lattice parameter. This is the same as the structure adopted by the high temperature polymorph of copper(I) cyanide. The silver to carbon and silver to nitrogen bond lengths in AgCN are both ~2.09 Å[1] and the cyanide groups show head-to-tail disorder.[2
Every so often as a kid I would have to repaint the “valleys” in the roof (metal pieces at the various corners/joints of the roof line) with that cooper paint. As well as the bottom of our old wooden boat. I can see it/ feel it right now - very distinct stuff!
That is why florists often use copper pitchers to water plants.
Your Ph is too high (above 7.2)
>> “Prima facie it seems that the increase of e coli outbreaks has paralled the changeover from copper to PVC plumbing.” <<
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This is especially true of hot tubs and jacuzzis. Legionaire disease is perpetuated by non-metalic plunbing.
Copper also accumulates in the liver, and when certain stressors trigger it, your liver dumps the copper in one event which then causes other organ failures and central nervous system failure. The syndrome is “Copper Toxicity”.
Beryllium copper should work even better.
Well, OK, you can’t ~legally~ get the good stuff anymore.
It’s also widely used in the Marine and Fresh water fish trade.
it’s used for it’s ability to kill bacteria and some parasites.
Maybe that’s why I’ve never met a sick timpanist.
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