Copper

iso	NA	half-life	DM	DE (MeV)	DP
⁶³Cu	69.15%	is stable with 34 neutrons
⁶⁴Cu	syn	12.700 h	ε	–	⁶⁴Ni
⁶⁴Cu	syn	12.700 h	β⁻	–	⁶⁴Zn
⁶⁵Cu	30.85%	is stable with 36 neutrons
⁶⁷Cu	syn	61.83 h	β⁻	–	⁶⁷Zn

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from Latin: cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a reddish-orange color. It is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, as a building material and as a constituent of various metal alloys, such as sterling silver used in jewelry, cupronickel used to make marine hardware and coins and constantan used in strain gauges and thermocouples for temperature measurement.

Copper is found as a pure metal in nature, and this was the first source of the metal to be used by humans, c. 8000 BC. It was the first metal to be smelted from its ore, c. 5000 BC, the first metal to be cast into a shape in a mold, c. 4000 BC and the first metal to be purposefully alloyed with another metal, tin, to create bronze, c. 3,500 BC.^[3]

In the Roman era, copper was principally mined on Cyprus, the origin of the name of the metal, from aes сyprium (metal of Cyprus), later corrupted to сuprum, from which the words copper (English), cuivre (French), Koper (Dutch) and Kupfer (German) are all derived.^[4] The commonly encountered compounds are copper(II) salts, which often impart blue or green colors to such minerals as azurite, malachite, and turquoise, and have been used widely and historically as pigments. Architectural structures built with copper (usually roofing elements) corrode to give green verdigris (or patina). Decorative art prominently features copper, both in the elemental metal and in compounds as pigments. Copper compounds are also used as bacteriostatic agents, fungicides, and wood preservatives.

Copper is essential to all living organisms as a trace dietary mineral because it is a key constituent of the respiratory enzyme complex cytochrome c oxidase. In molluscs and crustaceans copper is a constituent of the blood pigment hemocyanin, replaced by the iron-complexed hemoglobin in fish and other vertebrates. In humans, copper is found mainly in the liver, muscle, and bone.^[5] The adult body contains between 1.4 and 2.1 mg of copper per kilogram of body weight. Hence a healthy human weighing 60 kilogram contains approximately 0.1 g of copper. However, this small amount is essential to the overall human well-being.^[6]

Characteristics

Physical

A copper disc (99.95% pure) made by continuous casting; etched to reveal crystallites.

Copper just above its melting point keeps its pink luster color when enough light outshines the orange incandescence color.

Copper, silver and gold are in group 11 of the periodic table, and they share certain attributes: they have one s-orbital electron on top of a filled d-electron shell and are characterized by high ductility and electrical and thermal conductivity. The filled d-shells in these elements contribute little to interatomic interactions, which are dominated by the s-electrons through metallic bonds. Unlike metals with incomplete d-shells, metallic bonds in copper are lacking a covalent character and are relatively weak. This observation explains the low hardness and high ductility of single crystals of copper.^[7] At the macroscopic scale, introduction of extended defects to the crystal lattice, such as grain boundaries, hinders flow of the material under applied stress, thereby increasing its hardness. For this reason, copper is usually supplied in a fine-grained polycrystalline form, which has greater strength than monocrystalline forms.^[8]

The softness of copper partly explains its high electrical conductivity (59.6×10⁶ S/m) and high thermal conductivity, the second highest (second only to silver) among pure metals at room temperature.^[9] This is because the resistivity to electron transport in metals at room temperature originates primarily from scattering of electrons on thermal vibrations of the lattice, which are relatively weak in a soft metal.^[7] The maximum permissible current density of copper in open air is approximately 3.1×10⁶ A/m² of cross-sectional area, above which it begins to heat excessively.^[10]

Copper is one of four metallic elements with a natural color other than gray or silver, the others being caesium (yellow), gold (yellow), and osmium (bluish).^[11] Pure copper is orange-red and acquires a reddish tarnish when exposed to air. The characteristic color of copper results from the electronic transitions between the filled 3d and half-empty 4s atomic shells – the energy difference between these shells corresponds to orange light. The same mechanism causes the yellow color of gold and caesium.^[7]

As with other metals, if copper is put in contact with another metal, galvanic corrosion will occur.^[12]

Chemical

Unoxidized copper wire (left) and oxidized copper wire (right).

The East Tower of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. The contrast between the refurbished copper installed in 2010 and the green color of the original 1894 copper is clearly seen.

Copper does not react with water but it does slowly react with atmospheric oxygen to form a layer of brown-black copper oxide which, unlike the rust that forms on iron in moist air, protects the underlying metal from further corrosion (passivation). A green layer of verdigris (copper carbonate) can often be seen on old copper structures, such as the roofing of many older buildings^[13] and the Statue of Liberty.^[14] Copper tarnishes when exposed to some sulfur compounds, with which it reacts to form various copper sulfides.^[15]

Isotopes

Main article: Isotopes of copper

There are 29 isotopes of copper. ⁶³Cu and ⁶⁵Cu are stable, with ⁶³Cu comprising approximately 69% of naturally occurring copper; both have a spin of ³⁄₂.^[16] The other isotopes are radioactive, with the most stable being ⁶⁷Cu with a half-life of 61.83 hours.^[16] Seven metastable isotopes have been characterized; ^68mCu is the longest-lived with a half-life of 3.8 minutes. Isotopes with a mass number above 64 decay by β⁻, whereas those with a mass number below 64 decay by β⁺. ⁶⁴Cu, which has a half-life of 12.7 hours, decays both ways.^[17]

⁶²Cu and ⁶⁴Cu have significant applications. ⁶²Cu is used in ⁶²Cu-PTSM as a radioactive tracer for positron emission tomography.^[18]

Occurrence

Native copper from the Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan about 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) long

Copper is produced in massive stars^[19] and is present in the Earth's crust in a proportion of about 50 parts per million (ppm).^[20] It occurs as native copper, in the copper sulfides chalcopyrite and chalcocite, in the copper carbonates azurite and malachite, and in the copper(I) oxide mineral cuprite.^[9] The largest mass of elemental copper discovered weighed 420 tonnes and was found in 1857 on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, US.^[20] Native copper is a polycrystal, with the largest single crystal ever described measuring 4.4×3.2×3.2 cm.^[21]

Production

Chuquicamata in Chile is one of the world's largest open pit copper mines.

World production trend

Copper prices 2003–2011 in USD per tonne

Most copper is mined or extracted as copper sulfides from large open pit mines in porphyry copper deposits that contain 0.4 to 1.0% copper. Sites include Chuquicamata in Chile, Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, United States and El Chino Mine in New Mexico, United States. According to the British Geological Survey in 2005, Chile was the top producer of copper with at least one-third world share followed by the United States, Indonesia and Peru.^[9] Copper can also be recovered through the in-situ leach process. Several sites in the state of Arizona are considered prime candidates for this method.^[22] The amount of copper in use is increasing and the quantity available is barely sufficient to allow all countries to reach developed world levels of usage.^[23]

Reserves

Methods

Main article: Copper extraction techniques

Scheme of flash smelting process

The concentration of copper in ores averages only 0.6%, and most commercial ores are sulfides, especially chalcopyrite (CuFeS₂) and to a lesser extent chalcocite (Cu₂S).^[29] These minerals are concentrated from crushed ores to the level of 10–15% copper by froth flotation or bioleaching.^[30] Heating this material with silica in flash smelting removes much of the iron as slag. The process exploits the greater ease of converting iron sulfides into oxides, which in turn react with the silica to form the silicate slag that floats on top of the heated mass. The resulting copper matte, consisting of Cu₂S, is roasted to convert all sulfides into oxides:^[29]

2 Cu₂S + 3 O₂ → 2 Cu₂O + 2 SO₂

The cuprous oxide is converted to blister copper upon heating:

2 Cu₂O → 4 Cu + O₂

The Sudbury matte process converted only half the sulfide to oxide and then used this oxide to remove the rest of the sulfur as oxide. It was then electrolytically refined and the anode mud exploited for the platinum and gold it contained. This step exploits the relatively easy reduction of copper oxides to copper metal. Natural gas is blown across the blister to remove most of the remaining oxygen and electrorefining is performed on the resulting material to produce pure copper:^[31]

Cu²⁺ + 2 e⁻ → Cu

Recycling

Like aluminium, copper is 100% recyclable without any loss of quality, both from raw state and from manufactured products. In volume, copper is the third most recycled metal after iron and aluminium. An estimated 80% of all copper ever mined is still in use today.^[32] According to the International Resource Panel's Metal Stocks in Society report, the global per capita stock of copper in use in society is 35–55 kg. Much of this is in more-developed countries (140–300 kg per capita) rather than less-developed countries (30–40 kg per capita).

The process of recycling copper is roughly the same as is used to extract copper but requires fewer steps. High-purity scrap copper is melted in a furnace and then reduced and cast into billets and ingots; lower-purity scrap is refined by electroplating in a bath of sulfuric acid.^[33]

Alloys

Compounds

A sample of copper(I) oxide.

Copper forms a rich variety of compounds, usually with oxidation states +1 and +2, which are often called cuprous and cupric, respectively.^[38]

Binary compounds

As with other elements, the simplest compounds of copper are binary compounds, i.e. those containing only two elements, the principal examples being oxides, sulfides, and halides. Both cuprous and cupric oxides are known. Among the numerous copper sulfides, important examples include copper(I) sulfide and copper(II) sulfide.

Cuprous halides (with chlorine, bromine, and iodine) are known, as are cupric halides with fluorine, chlorine, and bromine. Attempts to prepare copper(II) iodide yield only cuprous iodide and iodine.^[38]

2 Cu²⁺ + 4 I⁻ → 2 CuI + I₂

Coordination chemistry

Copper(II) gives a deep blue coloration in the presence of ammonia ligands. The one used here is tetramminecopper(II) sulfate.

Copper forms coordination complexes with ligands. In aqueous solution, copper(II) exists as [Cu(H₂O)₆]²⁺. This complex exhibits the fastest water exchange rate (speed of water ligands attaching and detaching) for any transition metal aquo complex. Adding aqueous sodium hydroxide causes the precipitation of light blue solid copper(II) hydroxide. A simplified equation is:

Pourbaix diagram for copper in uncomplexed media (anions not other than OH- considered). Ion concentration 0.001 m (mol/kg water). Temperature 25 °C.

Cu²⁺ + 2 OH⁻ → Cu(OH)₂

Aqueous ammonia results in the same precipitate. Upon adding excess ammonia, the precipitate dissolves, forming tetraamminecopper(II):

Cu(H₂O)₄(OH)₂ + 4 NH₃ → [Cu(H₂O)₂(NH₃)₄]²⁺ + 2 H₂O + 2 OH⁻

Many other oxyanions form complexes; these include copper(II) acetate, copper(II) nitrate, and copper(II) carbonate. Copper(II) sulfate forms a blue crystalline pentahydrate, the most familiar copper compound in the laboratory. It is used in a fungicide called the Bordeaux mixture.^[39]

Ball-and-stick model of the complex [Cu(NH₃)₄(H₂O)₂]²⁺, illustrating the octahedral coordination geometry common for copper(II).

Polyols, compounds containing more than one alcohol functional group, generally interact with cupric salts. For example, copper salts are used to test for reducing sugars. Specifically, using Benedict's reagent and Fehling's solution the presence of the sugar is signaled by a color change from blue Cu(II) to reddish copper(I) oxide.^[40] Schweizer's reagent and related complexes with ethylenediamine and other amines dissolve cellulose.^[41] Amino acids form very stable chelate complexes with copper(II). Many wet-chemical tests for copper ions exist, one involving potassium ferrocyanide, which gives a brown precipitate with copper(II) salts.

Organocopper chemistry

Main article: Organocopper compound

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;^[42] in particular, the last reaction described produces a Gilman reagent. These can undergo substitution with alkyl halides to form coupling products; as such, they are important in the field of organic synthesis. Copper(I) acetylide is highly shock-sensitive but is an intermediate in reactions such as the Cadiot-Chodkiewicz coupling^[43] and the Sonogashira coupling.^[44] Conjugate addition to enones^[45] and carbocupration of alkynes^[46] can also be achieved with organocopper compounds. Copper(I) forms a variety of weak complexes with alkenes and carbon monoxide, especially in the presence of amine ligands.^[47]

Copper(III) and copper(IV)

Copper(III) is most often found in oxides. A simple example is potassium cuprate, KCuO₂, a blue-black solid.^[48] The most extensively studied copper(III) compounds are the cuprate superconductors. Yttrium barium copper oxide (YBa₂Cu₃O₇) consists of both Cu(II) and Cu(III) centres. Like oxide, fluoride is a highly basic anion^[49] and is known to stabilize metal ions in high oxidation states. Both copper(III) and even copper(IV) fluorides are known, K₃CuF₆ and Cs₂CuF₆, respectively.^[38]

Some copper proteins form oxo complexes, which also feature copper(III).^[50] With tetrapeptides, purple-colored copper(III) complexes are stabilized by the deprotonated amide ligands.^[51]

Complexes of copper(III) are also found as intermediates in reactions of organocopper compounds.^[52]

History

Copper Age

Main article: Copper Age

A corroded copper ingot from Zakros, Crete, shaped in the form of an animal skin typical in that era.

Many tools during the Chalcolithic Era included copper, such as the blade of this replica of Ötzi's axe

Copper ore (chrysocolla) in Cambrian sandstone from Chalcolithic mines in the Timna Valley, southern Israel.

Copper occurs naturally as native metallic copper and was known to some of the oldest civilizations on record. The history of copper use is at least 11,000 years old, estimated to have begun in 9000 BC in the Middle East;^[53] a copper pendant was found in northern Iraq that dates to 8700 BC.^[54] Evidence suggests that gold and meteoric iron (but not iron smelting) were the only metals used by humans before copper.^[55] The history of copper metallurgy is thought to follow this sequence: 1) cold working of native copper, 2) annealing, 3) smelting, and 4) the lost wax casting. In southeastern Anatolia, all four of these techniques appear more or less simultaneously at the beginning of the Neolithic c. 7500 BC.^[56]

Just as agriculture was independently invented in several parts of the world, copper smelting was independently invented in different places. It was probably discovered in China before 2800 BC, in Central America perhaps around 600 AD, and in West Africa about the 9th or 10th century AD.^[57] Investment casting was invented in 4500–4000 BC in Southeast Asia^[53] and carbon dating has established mining at Alderley Edge in Cheshire, UK at 2280 to 1890 BC.^[58] Ötzi the Iceman, a male dated from 3300–3200 BC, was found with an axe with a copper head 99.7% pure; high levels of arsenic in his hair suggest his involvement in copper smelting.^[59] Experience with copper has assisted the development of other metals; in particular, copper smelting led to the discovery of iron smelting.^[59] Production in the Old Copper Complex in Michigan and Wisconsin is dated between 6000 and 3000 BC.^[60]^[61] Natural bronze, a type of copper made from ores rich in silicon, arsenic, and (rarely) tin, came into general use in the Balkans around 5500 BC.

Bronze Age

Main article: Bronze Age

Alloying copper with tin to make bronze was first practiced about 4000 years after the discovery of copper smelting, and about 2000 years after "natural bronze" had come into general use. Bronze artifacts from the Vinča culture date to 4500 BC.^[62] Sumerian and Egyptian artifacts of copper and bronze alloys date to 3000 BC.^[63] The Bronze Age began in Southeastern Europe around 3700–3300 BC, in Northwestern Europe about 2500 BC. It ended with the beginning of the Iron Age, 2000–1000 BC in the Near East, and 600 BC in Northern Europe. The transition between the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age was formerly termed the Chalcolithic period (copper-stone), when copper tools were used with stone tools. The term has gradually fallen out of favor because in some parts of the world, the Chalcolithic and Neolithic are coterminous at both ends. Brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, is of much more recent origin. It was known to the Greeks, but became a significant supplement to bronze during the Roman Empire.^[63]

Antiquity and Middle Ages

In alchemy the symbol for copper was also the symbol for the goddess and planet Venus.

Chalcolithic copper mine in Timna Valley, Negev Desert, Israel.

In Greece, copper was known by the name chalkos (χαλκός). It was an important resource for the Romans, Greeks and other ancient peoples. In Roman times, it was known as aes Cyprium, aes being the generic Latin term for copper alloys and Cyprium from Cyprus, where much copper was mined. The phrase was simplified to cuprum, hence the English copper. Aphrodite (Venus in Rome) represented copper in mythology and alchemy because of its lustrous beauty and its ancient use in producing mirrors; Cyprus was sacred to the goddess. The seven heavenly bodies known to the ancients were associated with the seven metals known in antiquity, and Venus was assigned to copper.^[64]

Britain first used brass in about the 3rd or 2nd Century BC. In North America, copper mining began with marginal workings by Native Americans. Native copper is known to have been extracted from sites on Isle Royale with primitive stone tools between 800 and 1600.^[65] Copper metallurgy was flourishing in South America, particularly in Peru around 1000 AD. Copper burial ornamentals from the 15th century have been uncovered, but the metal's commercial production did not start until the early 20th century.

The cultural role of copper has been important, particularly in currency. Romans in the 6th through 3rd centuries BC used copper lumps as money. At first, the copper itself was valued, but gradually the shape and look of the copper became more important. Julius Caesar had his own coins made from brass, while Octavianus Augustus Caesar's coins were made from Cu-Pb-Sn alloys. With an estimated annual output of around 15,000 t, Roman copper mining and smelting activities reached a scale unsurpassed until the time of the Industrial Revolution; the provinces most intensely mined were those of Hispania, Cyprus and in Central Europe.^[66]^[67]

The gates of the Temple of Jerusalem used Corinthian bronze treated with depletion gilding. The process was most prevalent in Alexandria, where alchemy is thought to have begun.^[68] In ancient India, copper was used in the holistic medical science Ayurveda for surgical instruments and other medical equipment. Ancient Egyptians (~2400 BC) used copper for sterilizing wounds and drinking water, and later to treat headaches, burns, and itching.

Modern period

Acid mine drainage affecting the stream running from the disused Parys Mountain copper mines

The Great Copper Mountain was a mine in Falun, Sweden, that operated from the 10th century to 1992. It satisfied two thirds of Europe's copper consumption in the 17th century and helped fund many of Sweden's wars during that time.^[69] It was referred to as the nation's treasury; Sweden had a copper backed currency.^[70]

Copper was used in roofing,^[13] currency, Renaissance sculpture, photographic technology known as the daguerreotype, the Statue of Liberty, and other structures. Copper plating and copper sheathing was widely used to protect the under-water hulls of ships, a technique pioneered by the British Admiralty in the 18th century.^[71] The Norddeutsche Affinerie in Hamburg was the first modern electroplating plant starting its production in 1876.^[72] The German scientist Gottfried Osann invented powder metallurgy in 1830 while determining the metal's atomic mass; around then it was discovered that the amount and type of alloying element (e.g., tin) to copper would affect bell tones. Flash smelting was developed by Outokumpu in Finland and first applied at Harjavalta in 1949; the energy-efficient process accounts for 50% of the world's primary copper production.^[73]

The Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries, formed in 1967 by Chile, Peru, Zaire and Zambia, operated in the copper market as OPEC does in oil, though it never achieved the same influence, particularly because the second-largest producer, the United States, was never a member; it was dissolved in 1988.^[74]

Applications

Wire and cable

Main article: Copper wire and cable

Despite competition from other materials, copper remains the preferred electrical conductor in nearly all categories of electrical wiring except overhead electric power transmission where aluminium is often preferred.^[77]^[78] Copper wire is used in power generation, power transmission, power distribution, telecommunications, electronics circuitry, and countless types of electrical equipment.^[79] Electrical wiring is the most important market for the copper industry.^[80] This includes structural power wiring, power distribution cable, appliance wire, communications cable, automotive wire and cable, and magnet wire. Roughly half of all copper mined is used for electrical wire and cable conductors.^[81] Many electrical devices rely on copper wiring because of its multitude of inherent beneficial properties, such as its high electrical conductivity, tensile strength, ductility, creep (deformation) resistance, corrosion resistance, low thermal expansion, high thermal conductivity, ease of soldering, malleability, and ease of installation.

For a short period from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, copper wiring was replaced by aluminum in many housing construction projects in America (see Aluminum wire for main article). The new wiring was implicated in a number of house fires and the industry returned to copper.^[82]^[83]

Electronics and related devices

Copper electrical busbars distributing power to a large building

Integrated circuits and printed circuit boards increasingly feature copper in place of aluminium because of its superior electrical conductivity (see Copper interconnect for main article); heat sinks and heat exchangers use copper because of its superior heat dissipation properties. Electromagnets, vacuum tubes, cathode ray tubes, and magnetrons in microwave ovens use copper, as do wave guides for microwave radiation.^[84]

Electric motors

Copper's superior conductivity enhances the efficiency of electrical motors.^[85] This is important because motors and motor-driven systems account for 43%–46% of all global electricity consumption and 69% of all electricity used by industry.^[86] Increasing the mass and cross section of copper in a coil increases the efficiency of the motor. Copper motor rotors, a new technology designed for motor applications where energy savings are prime design objectives,^[87]^[88] are enabling general-purpose induction motors to meet and exceed National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) premium efficiency standards.^[89]

Architecture

Main article: Copper in architecture

Copper roof on the Minneapolis City Hall, coated with patina

Old copper utensils in a Jerusalem restaurant

Copper has been used since ancient times as a durable, corrosion resistant, and weatherproof architectural material.^[90]^[91]^[92]^[93] Roofs, flashings, rain gutters, downspouts, domes, spires, vaults, and doors have been made from copper for hundreds or thousands of years. Copper's architectural use has been expanded in modern times to include interior and exterior wall cladding, building expansion joints, radio frequency shielding, and antimicrobial and decorative indoor products such as attractive handrails, bathroom fixtures, and counter tops. Some of copper's other important benefits as an architectural material include low thermal movement, light weight, lightning protection, and recyclability.

The metal's distinctive natural green patina has long been coveted by architects and designers. The final patina is a particularly durable layer that is highly resistant to atmospheric corrosion, thereby protecting the underlying metal against further weathering.^[94]^[95]^[96] It can be a mixture of carbonate and sulfate compounds in various amounts, depending upon environmental conditions such as sulfur-containing acid rain.^[97]^[98]^[99]^[100] Architectural copper and its alloys can also be 'finished' to embark a particular look, feel, and/or color. Finishes include mechanical surface treatments, chemical coloring, and coatings.^[101]

Copper has excellent brazing and soldering properties and can be welded; the best results are obtained with gas metal arc welding.^[102]

Antibiofouling applications

Main articles: Copper alloys in aquaculture and Copper sheathing

Copper is biostatic, meaning bacteria and many other forms of life will not grow on it. For this reason it has long been used to line parts of ships to protect against barnacles and mussels. It was originally used pure, but has since been superseded by Muntz metal and copper-based paint. Similarly, as discussed in copper alloys in aquaculture, copper alloys have become important netting materials in the aquaculture industry because they are antimicrobial and prevent biofouling, even in extreme conditions^[103] and have strong structural and corrosion-resistant^[104] properties in marine environments.

Antimicrobial applications

Main articles: Antimicrobial properties of copper and Antimicrobial copper-alloy touch surfaces

Copper-alloy touch surfaces have natural properties that destroy a wide range of microorganisms (e.g., E. coli O157:H7, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Staphylococcus, Clostridium difficile, influenza A virus, adenovirus, and fungi).^[105] Some 355 copper alloys were proven to kill more than 99.9% of disease-causing bacteria within just two hours when cleaned regularly.^[106] The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the registrations of these copper alloys as "antimicrobial materials with public health benefits";^[106] that approval allows manufacturers to make legal claims to the public health benefits of products made of registered alloys. In addition, the EPA has approved a long list of antimicrobial copper products made from these alloys, such as bedrails, handrails, over-bed tables, sinks, faucets, door knobs, toilet hardware, computer keyboards, health club equipment, and shopping cart handles (for a comprehensive list, see: Antimicrobial copper-alloy touch surfaces#Approved products). Copper doorknobs are used by hospitals to reduce the transfer of disease, and Legionnaires' disease is suppressed by copper tubing in plumbing systems.^[107] Antimicrobial copper alloy products are now being installed in healthcare facilities in the U.K., Ireland, Japan, Korea, France, Denmark, and Brazil and in the subway transit system in Santiago, Chile, where copper-zinc alloy handrails will be installed in some 30 stations between 2011 and 2014.^[108]^[109]^[110]

Folk medicine

Copper is commonly used in jewelry, and according to some folklore, copper bracelets relieve arthritis symptoms.^[111] In various studies, though, no difference is found between arthritis treated with a copper bracelet, magnetic bracelet, or placebo bracelet.^[112]^[113] Medical science has not demonstrated any benefits in copper jewelry for any medical condition. A human being can have a dietary copper deficiency, but the condition is very rare because copper is present in many common foods, including legumes (beans), grains, and nuts.^[114]

No evidence shows that copper can be absorbed through the skin. If it were, it might lead to copper poisoning.^[115]

Compression clothing

Recently, some compression clothing with inter-woven copper has been marketed with the same folk medicine claims. Because compression clothing is a valid treatment for some ailments, the clothing may appear to work, but the added copper may have no benefit beyond a placebo effect.^[116]

Other uses

Solutions of copper compounds are used as a wood preservative, particularly in treating the original portion of structures during restoration of dry rot damage. Together with zinc, copper wires may be installed over non-conductive roofing materials to discourage the growth of moss. Textile fibers are blended with copper to create antimicrobial protective fabrics.^[117]^[118] Copper alloys are used in musical instruments, particularly: the body of brass instruments; circuitry for all those that are electronically amplified; the bodies of brass percussion such as gongs, bells, and kettle drums; tuning heads on guitars and other string instruments; string windings on harps, pianos, harpsichords, and string instruments; and the frame elements of pianos and harps. Copper is commonly used as a base on which other metals such as nickel are electroplated.

Copper is one of three metals, along with lead and silver, used in the museum materials testing procedure called the Oddy test to detect chlorides, oxides, and sulfur compounds.

Copper is used as the printing plate in etching, engraving and other forms of intaglio printmaking.

Copper oxide and carbonate are used add color in stain glass works, in glassmaking, and in ceramic glazes to impart turquoise blue, green, and brown colors.

Copper is used to create stills for distilling spirits, for example to make whisky. It's malleability makes it easy to bend into the various shapes required and allows considerable flexibility in the shaping of the still and associated pipework; the metal also reacts with undesirable sulfur-containing components in the vapor and distillate making for a cleaner product.

Degradation

Chromobacterium violaceum and Pseudomonas fluorescens can both mobilize solid copper as a cyanide compound.^[119] The ericoid mycorrhizal fungi associated with Calluna, Erica and Vaccinium can grow in metalliferous soils containing copper.^[119] The ectomycorrhizal fungus Suillus luteus protects young pine trees from copper toxicity. A sample of the fungus Aspergillus niger was found growing from gold mining solution and was found to contain cyano complexes of such metals as gold, silver, copper, iron, and zinc. The fungus also plays a role in the solubilization of heavy metal sulfides.^[120]

Biological role

Main article: Copper in health

Rich sources of copper include oysters, beef and lamb liver, Brazil nuts, blackstrap molasses, cocoa, and black pepper. Good sources include lobster, nuts and sunflower seeds, green olives, avocados, and wheat bran.

Copper proteins have diverse roles in biological electron transport and oxygen transportation, processes that exploit the easy interconversion of Cu(I) and Cu(II).^[121]^[122]^[123] ^[124] The biological role for copper commenced with the appearance of oxygen in earth's atmosphere.^[125]

Copper is essential in the aerobic respiration of all eukaryotes. In mitochondria it is found in cytochrome c oxidase, which is the last protein in oxidative phosphorylation. Cytochrome c oxidase is the protein that binds the O₂ between a copper and an iron; the protein transfers 8 electrons to the O₂ molecule to reduce it to two molecules of water.

Copper is also found in many superoxide dismutases, proteins that catalyze the decomposition of superoxides by converting it (by disproportionation) to oxygen and hydrogen peroxide:

2 HO₂ → H₂O₂ + O₂

The protein hemocyanin is the oxygen carrier in most mollusks and some arthropods such as the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus).^[126] Because hemocyanin is blue, these organisms have blue blood rather than the red blood of iron-based hemoglobin. Structurally related to hemocyanin are the laccases and tyrosinases. Instead of reversibly binding oxygen, these proteins hydroxylate substrates, illustrated by their role in the formation of lacquers.^[124]

Several copper proteins, such as the "blue copper proteins", do not interact directly with substrates, hence they are not enzymes. These proteins relay electrons by the process called electron transfer.^[124]

Photosynthesis functions by an elaborate electron transport chain within the thylakoid membrane. A central link in this chain is plastocyanin, a blue copper protein.

A unique tetranuclear copper center has been found in nitrous-oxide reductase.^[127]

Dietary needs

Copper is an essential trace element in plants and animals, but not all microorganisms. The human body contains copper at a level of about 1.4 to 2.1 mg per kg of body mass.^[128] Copper is absorbed in the gut, then transported to the liver bound to albumin.^[129] After processing in the liver, copper is distributed to other tissues in a second phase, which involves the protein ceruloplasmin, carrying the majority of copper in blood. Ceruloplasmin also carries the copper that is excreted in milk, and is particularly well-absorbed as a copper source.^[130] 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.^[131]^[132]

Dietary reference intake

The Food and Nutrition Board of the U.S. Institute of Medicine updated Estimated Average Requirements (EARs) and Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) for copper in 2001. The current EAR for copper for people ages 14 and up is 0.7 mg/day. The RDA is 0.9 mg/day. RDAs are higher than EARs so as to identify amounts that will cover people with higher than average requirements. RDA for pregnancy equals 1.0 mg/day. RDA for lactation equals 1.3 mg/day. For infants up to 12 months the AI is 0.22 mg/day and for children ages 1–13 years the RDA increases with age from 0.34 to 0.7 mg/day. As for safety, the Food and Nutrition Board also sets Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (known as ULs) for vitamins and minerals when evidence is sufficient. In the case of copper the UL is set at 10 mg/day. Collectively the EARs, RDAs, AIs and ULs are referred to as Dietary Reference Intakes.^[133] The European Food Safety Authority reviewed the same safety question and set its UL at 5 mg/day.^[134]

For U.S. food and dietary supplement labeling purposes the amount in a serving is expressed as a percent of Daily Value (%DV). For copper labeling purposes 100% of the Daily Value was 2.0 mg, but as of May 2016 it has been revised to 0.9 mg. Food and supplement companies have until July 28, 2018 to comply with the change. A table of the pre-change adult Daily Values is provided at Reference Daily Intake.

In the United States, copper deficiency is not common. A federal survey of food consumption determined that for women and men over the age of 19, average consumption from foods and beverages was 1.11 and 1.54 mg/day, respectively. For women, 10% consumed less than the EAR, for men <3%.^[135]

Copper-based disorders

Because of its role in facilitating iron uptake, copper deficiency can produce anemia-like symptoms, neutropenia, bone abnormalities, hypopigmentation, impaired growth, increased incidence of infections, osteoporosis, hyperthyroidism, and abnormalities in glucose and cholesterol metabolism. Conversely, Wilson's disease causes an accumulation of copper in body tissues.

Severe deficiency can be found by testing for low plasma or serum copper levels, low ceruloplasmin, and low red blood cell superoxide dismutase levels; these are not sensitive to marginal copper status. The "cytochrome c oxidase activity of leucocytes and platelets" has been stated as another factor in deficiency, but the results have not been confirmed by replication.^[136]

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Main article: Copper toxicity

Gram quantities of various copper salts have been taken in suicide attempts and produced acute copper toxicity in humans, possibly due to redox cycling and the generation of reactive oxygen species that damage DNA.^[137]^[138] Corresponding amounts of copper salts (30 mg/kg) are toxic in animals.^[139] A minimum dietary value for healthy growth in rabbits has been reported to be at least 3 ppm in the diet.^[140] However, higher concentrations of copper (100 ppm, 200 ppm, or 500 ppm) in the diet of rabbits may favorably influence feed conversion efficiency, growth rates, and carcass dressing percentages.^[141]

Chronic copper toxicity does not normally occur in humans because of transport systems that regulate absorption and excretion. Autosomal recessive mutations in copper transport proteins can disable these systems, leading to Wilson's disease with copper accumulation and cirrhosis of the liver in persons who have inherited two defective genes.^[128]

Elevated copper levels have also been linked to worsening symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.^[142]^[143]

Occupational exposure

In the US, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has designated a permissible exposure limit (PEL) for copper dust and fumes in the workplace as a time-weighted average (TWA) of 1 mg/m³. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has set a Recommended exposure limit (REL) of 1 mg/m³, time-weighted average. The IDLH (immediately dangerous to life and health) value is 100 mg/m³.^[144]

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Notes

Pourbaix diagrams for copper

in pure water, or acidic or alkali conditions. Copper in neutral water is more noble than hydrogen.	in water containing sulfide	in 10 M ammonia solution	in a chloride solution

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Cu(0,I)	Cu₅Si

Cu(I)	CuBr CuCN CuCl CuF CuH CuI Cu₂C₂ Cu₂Cr₂O₅ Cu₂O Cu₂S Cu₃P CuSCN

Cu(II)	Cu(BF₄)₂ CuBr₂ CuC₂ Cu(CN)₂ CuCO₃ CuCl₂ CuF₂ Cu(NO₃)₂ Cu₃(PO₄)₂ CuN₆ CuO CuO₂ Cu(OH)₂ CuI₂ CuS CuSO₄ Cu₃(AsO₄)₂

Cu(III)	K₃CuF₆ Cu₂O₃

Cu(IV)	Cs₂CuF₆ Rb₂CuF₆

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