MATERIAL: Furniture for Work and Home - Antimicrobial Properties of Copper and Brass
MATERIAL: Furniture for Work and Home - Antimicrobial Properties of Copper and Brass
We have purchased many furniture for the cafe with the Well Building Standard guidelines. Some furniture selected is to help us enjoy the environment that we are in and invokes a special feeling in us.
Certain furniture made with stones and metals can help us maintain good health and be your connection to Living Well!
Antimicrobial Properties of Copper and Brass
Brass/bronze, copper are natural antimicrobial materials. Ancient civilizations exploited the antimicrobial properties of copper long before the concept of microbes became understood in the nineteenth century. In addition to several copper medicinal preparations, it was also observed centuries ago that water contained in copper vessels or transported in copper conveyance systems was of better quality than water contained or transported in other materials.
In 1852 Victor Burq discovered those working with copper had far fewer deaths to cholera than anyone else, and did extensive research confirming this. In 1867 he presented his findings to the French Academies of Science and Medicine, informing them that putting copper on the skin was effective at preventing someone from getting cholera.
In 1973, researchers at Battelle Columbus Laboratories conducted a comprehensive literature, technology, and patent search that traced the history of understanding the "bacteriostatic and sanitizing properties of copper and copper alloy surfaces", which demonstrated that copper, in very small quantities, has the power to control a wide range of molds, fungi, algae, and harmful microbes.
