how does copper kill pathogens?

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how does copper kill pathogens?

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Generally copper ions enter a microbe and then either react with molecules in the microbe which make it unable to function normally which doesn’t necessarily kill it but inhibits it, or they act as a catalyst (speed up a reaction without being part of the reaction) of a molecule which then damages the microbe directly.

It’s hard to really get into more detail without prerequisite knowledge.

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