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  2. Copper in biology - Wikipedia

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    In many regions of the world, copper tubing that conveys drinking water can be a source of dietary copper. [65] Copper tube can leach a small amount of copper, particularly in its first year or two of service. Afterwards, a protective surface usually forms on the inside of copper tubes that slows leaching.

  3. Copper - Wikipedia

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    Copper in the body normally undergoes enterohepatic circulation (about 5 mg a day, vs. about 1 mg per day absorbed in the diet and excreted from the body), and the body is able to excrete some excess copper, if needed, via bile, which carries some copper out of the liver that is not then reabsorbed by the intestine.

  4. List of alchemical substances - Wikipedia

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    The crust formed on the lid was ground to powder and boiled with water to remove the calomel. Calx – calcium oxide; was also used to refer to other metal oxides. Chalcanthum – the residue produced by strongly roasting blue vitriol (copper sulfate); it is composed mostly of cupric oxide. Chalk – a rock composed of porous biogenic calcium ...

  5. Antimicrobial properties of copper - Wikipedia

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    Copper alloy surfaces have intrinsic properties that destroy many microorganisms.In the interest of protecting public health, especially in healthcare environments with their susceptible patient populations, an abundance of peer-reviewed antimicrobial efficacy studies have been conducted in the past ten years regarding copper's efficacy to destroy E. coli O157:H7, methicillin-resistant ...

  6. Copper compounds - Wikipedia

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    Compounds that contain a carbon-copper bond are known as organocopper compounds. They are very reactive towards oxygen to form copper(I) oxide and have many uses in chemistry . They are synthesized by treating copper(I) compounds with Grignard reagents , terminal alkynes or organolithium reagents ; [ 12 ] in particular, the last reaction ...

  7. Organocopper chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Organocopper chemistry is the study of the physical properties, reactions, and synthesis of organocopper compounds, which are organometallic compounds containing a carbon to copper chemical bond. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are reagents in organic chemistry .

  8. Copper(II) oxide - Wikipedia

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    Copper(II) oxide or cupric oxide is an inorganic compound with the formula CuO. A black solid, it is one of the two stable oxides of copper, the other being Cu 2 O or copper(I) oxide (cuprous oxide). As a mineral, it is known as tenorite, or sometimes black copper.

  9. Chalcanthite - Wikipedia

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    As chalcanthite is a copper mineral, it can be used as an ore of copper. However, its ready solubility in water means that it tends to crystallize, dissolve, and recrystallize as crusts over any mine surface in more humid regions. Therefore, chalcanthite is only found in the most arid regions in sufficiently large quantities for use as an ore.