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To: DUMBGRUNT

We used to kill fungus infections like ringworm with a saucer of vinegar, some real copper pennies oxidizing in it till it turns green, then dab it on the fungus till it goes away.

Real Copper pennies are hard to find now days. I also used some scrap copper from other sources. Barely submerge them in the vinegar and allow the air to oxidize them.


7 posted on 05/26/2019 8:30:47 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Three days in FB prison for this...'Was "IT" a DNA XX or DNA XY'?)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Pennies minted before 1982 are copper. Dirt common.


10 posted on 05/26/2019 8:34:34 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

It occurs to me that the copper- plated zinc pennies might do just as well, or better. Zinc is no friend of fungi.


13 posted on 05/26/2019 8:37:22 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You made copper acetate, cooper salts can be anti-fungals. Could probably use copper sulfate or use zinc with vinegar- zinc salts should have similar actions.


17 posted on 05/26/2019 8:45:16 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Copper wire is easy to find at any home-goods store.


18 posted on 05/26/2019 8:47:33 AM PDT by dangus
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