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I feel like the price of copper, due to demand from other industries, would be a huge deterrent to widespread use in hospitals. Is that not a major issue?
by mathgeek 10y ago
I feel like the price of copper, due to demand from other industries, would be a huge deterrent to widespread use in hospitals. Is that not a major issue?
- lutusp 10y agoSee the table on this page: http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Matter/Costs.html http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Matter/Costs.html In one of the tables the cost for bronze (more durable than pure copper but having similar antiseptic properties) is listed as 19.5 versus 10.9 for stainless steel, same units. So bronze costs almost twice as much as stainless, not a ruinous increase given its antiseptic properties. One could seek an alloy form that would balance a material's antiseptic property versus cost, a project that hasn't yet begun.