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How does silver kill microbes?

>> No.15118332

Doesn't copper kill microbes too? Also bump

>> No.15118358

Are you trying to spell "fag" in the catalog...

>> No.15118384

>>15118251
By being poisonous.

>> No.15118400

>>15118251
I don’t think it kills them. I believe they can’t grow on it.

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15118410

Why wouldn’t you just look this up on the Internet?

https://collegian.csufresno.edu/2020/08/how-natural-silver-can-help-eliminate-bacteria/

>> No.15118463

Many metals have catalytic properties because they have multiple valence electrons. This allows them to bond with multiple chemicals and "loosen up" their valence shells. While in this state they can react much more freely with eachother. This is great when you're trying to do a reaction in a lab, but not so great when it's happening in living tissue. It tends to cause DNA damage and protein cross-linking, among other things. These are not a big deal in small amounts on your skin, but to a tiny bacteria it's absolutely deadly. They basically get "burnt" by the catalytic reactions and this is what kills them.

>> No.15119136

It probably doesn't.