Zinc, Copper and Silver does among the best with Copper apparently in the
lead...but only Silver has no biological niche amongst the top 3 and is
thus non toxic.
<javascript:AL_get(this, 'jour', 'Zentralbl Bakteriol Mikrobiol Hyg
B.');>Zentralbl Bakteriol Mikrobiol Hyg B. 1985 Dec;182(1):95-101.
[Oligodynamic action of 17 different metals on Bacillus subtilis,
Enterobacteriaceae, Legionellaceae, Micrococcaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa]
[Article in German]
Müller HE.
Abstract
The oligodynamic action of the pure metals aluminium, antimony, bismuth,
cadmium, cobalt, copper, gold, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel,
platinum, silver, tin, titanium, and zinc on Bacillus subtilis (1 strain),
Enterobacteriaceae (26 strains), Legionellaceae (13 strains),
Micrococcaceae (6 strains), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (4 strains) was
investigated using an agar diffusion test. B. subtilis and Legionellaceae
exhibited the highest susceptibility. The apathogenic micrococci and
staphylococci were more susceptible to oligodynamic action of some metals
than S. aureus. The group of gramnegative rods was the most resistant. The
susceptibility of the different bacteria seems to be very different. Apart
from the known oligodynamic action of some heavy metals the activity of
antimony, cobalt, gold, and platinum should be mentioned.
At 12:14 PM 4/23/2010 +0100, you wrote:
What about stainless steel? dee
On 23 Apr 2010, at 03:48, bodhisattva wrote:
> This is correct, and not unexpected. All plumbing should be copper,
all end fixtures brass when possible. I have 2 sets of BRASS shower
heads (no plastic, not even fittings), I switch them out, then soak the
used one in CS for a few days, let it dry, then put it away until the
next change out. Seems to work pretty well. The whole plastic shower
head and PVC movement is pathetic, another idea gone bad. I did this
before the whole thing was made public, it just made sense to me.
>
> Don't forget hotel rooms, bring your own shower head, sounds strange
but those places are disgusting cesspools of germs with 20 year old
plastic shower heads. We don't have to be paranoid about it, but when you
take a nice shower it would be nice to know you aren't vaporizing fungus
and bacteria into your face. You can find the shower heads I use on Ebay
or your local hardware (and the pressure from them ROCKS): (pathogens
aren't happy about brass either)
>
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