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> 8. Carry a water bottle (copper ideal). Why is copper better than stainless steel?
by vladvasiliu 3y ago
> 8. Carry a water bottle (copper ideal).
Why is copper better than stainless steel?
- civilitty 3y agoCopper has anti-microbial properties and acts as a spermicide in a pinch.
- dustypotato 3y agoWait, what use do you see for it as a spermicide? How would you use it?
- irrational 3y agoYou don’t use copper condoms?
- Maxion 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_IUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_IUD
- dustypotato 3y agoDoesn't seem like a water bottle though :|
- civilitty 3y agoFiguring it out is half the fun! ;-) (For some hints, see the sketches of the Dwarven Kama Sutra found in JRR Token’s estate)
- darkwizard42 3y agoCopper is known to help kill more bacteria and thus helps additionally purify the water (1) 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3067274/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3067274/
- morsch 3y agoWon't it also kill you if you put something acidic in the bottle? Like water with a spritz of lemon? That's why copper pots have a lining, anyway. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdigris https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdigris
- voxelghost 3y agoYup, and although correct about coppers antimicrobial effect it only kills bacteria on contact. So I suspect a majority of any bacterial contamination in the water, will never come in close enough contact with the copper walls for it to have any real effect.
- c00lio 3y agoWater bottles, if not cleaned properly with a soap and brush on the inside, will be coated with a bacterial "lawn". Copper prevents that. Lots of bacteria need such a lawn to propagate, only some can multiply without a substrate. So even if the "free" water part won't be desinfected, copper has an overall positive effect on the bacterial content of your drinking water.
- thorncorona 3y agoAs someone who washes my (steel) water bottle at most 1x a week, and drinks ~10-14L of water a week, I've never gotten sick from drinking out of my bottle before. You can usually tell if the water in your bottle is going bad / filled w bacteria..
- kelipso 3y agoSame, except I wash it like once in a blue moon lol.
- kitkat_new 3y agoI have to at least rub the area where I drink otherwise it will smell within less 2 days
- bombolo 3y agoIt's not better, since it's toxic.
- saiya-jin 3y ago> Is it safe to drink water from copper bottle everyday? > If you have been drinking water that has been constantly stored in copper bottle or vessel, chances are high that you might be at the risk of copper toxicity. It can cause severe nausea, dizziness, abdominal pain and can result in liver and kidney failure. No thank you. I get the struggle to not use plastics, I try to avoid it myself too (especially buying water in plastic bottles in shops is something I never do), but alternatives are subpar, either very heavy, fragile and overall impractical for outdoor sports (ie glass), or some other issues. What happened to stainless steel? Heavy but at least should be inert and nearly indestructible, no? I mean those without some crap BPA lining inside, like thermos but single walled.
- morsch 3y agoNothing happened to stainless steel bottles, they're available. About twice as heavy as a plastic bottle, when empty that is. Full it's more like 900g vs 750g.
- Glawen 3y agoI stopped using plastic bottle because it tends to accumulate biological matter or whatever, and a smell / bad taste builds up over time. I switched to stainless steel and couldn't be happier. Decathlon stores in europe sell very good stainless steel bottler for different size.