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Amazingly brass has antimicrobial properties.
by throwway120385 4y ago
Amazingly brass has antimicrobial properties.
- kube-system 4y agoAnd the only brass knobs he used were in his own home!
- chaxor 4y agoAnd lead, so it's a bit macrobial too :D
- TylerE 4y agoSo does silver, to the point it’s used in advanced wound dressing. They aren’t cheap though - ask my insurance company! There isn’t that much silver in them, but a 2x2” square is about $4 or so, compared to a few cents for a plain gauze pad.
- oliveshell 4y agoThese properties also cause some people to attempt injecting or swallowing colloidal silver as a purported panacea, sometimes with unintended results: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
- kwhitefoot 4y agoSilver is 0.72 USD/g at the moment so the price of silver alone does not account for the difference in price. A two inch square piece of silver weighing a gram would be more than a tenth of a millimetre thick.
- tobylane 4y agoBrass does, but the oxide layer that forms quickly does not.