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Tuesday March 10, 20
03:09 PM
Last year the TV show Innovation Nation highlighted an inventor who had produced a shirt that never stinks. The way it worked was that there were silver threads woven in with the cloth. Silver kills bacteria, they explained, and body odor us caused by bacteria.
I didn’t know that about silver, and they never explained why or how silver kills bacteria.
This made me wonder why all door and faucet handles, light switches, hand rails, and all sorts of other places that spread germs in hospitals aren’t silver plated?
Of course, this wouldn’t help with Covid-19, the flu, or common cold, since they’re viral, not bacteriological. Or would it? Is silver as deadly to viruses as it is to bacteria?
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(Score: 2, Informative) by charon on Tuesday March 10 2020, @03:18PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday March 11 2020, @06:25PM
Yes, but then they're clear-coated with lacquer, urethane, etc., to prevent tarnish. So you're not coming into contact with the metal.
Any of those germ-killing metals tarnish quickly. Tarnish is generally metal oxide, and the germ-killing reduced. So you could do it with bare metals, but you'd have to polish them frequently, which may be worth it if it works well.
It's worth looking into some more.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 10 2020, @03:28PM
What you're looking for is called the oligodynamic effect. It's why many hospitals had red brass (i.e., high-copper content) doorknobs and touch surfaces, and why some ancient near-east people used silver drinking vessels if they were wealthy enough.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by barbara hudson on Tuesday March 10 2020, @03:37PM (1 child)
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:23PM
I hear Barbara polished her knob so effectively it fell off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @05:50PM (1 child)
People steal copper from public places and sell it, so they switched to plastic and stainless steel.
But I wonder if rubbing someone armpits with a silver eagle would reduce BO.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @11:19PM
Maybe, but it would at least give your pits an aerie feeling (to coin a phrase).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @11:31PM (1 child)
It's standard for astronauts. Space station residents never wash clothing. They put it on, wear it until it is full of holes, and then store it in the trash to be deorbited.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @06:15PM
They don't hang it outside to air it out?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 11 2020, @12:44AM
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