Invisible Allies
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Can Copper Help With Legionnaires?
For a long time Copper, and particularly its alloy brass, were the major materials used in buildings. Then about 40-50 years ago there were all of these new materials that replaced traditional copper Stender steel, aluminium, plastics. People thought, oh these look nice And they're easy to clean So let's get rid of the copper and the alloys because we've got to keep cleaning those Because they're tarnish And copper is expensive. But then people are like, well why don't we use these cheap materials in all of our stuff? Wow, so big copper, when they called kevel They were like, kevel bring back the Bronze Age It feels like that is the copper
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