Yours Cuprically
by Robin and the Honey Badger
Price: $2.99 USD. 5720 words.
Language: English. Published on October 24, 2012. Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Life Sciences / Biochemistry.
Join us as we invite the chemical element copper to explain its various, and sometimes contrary, biological roles in its own voice. Across the living spectrum from microbes to macrobes, we see the micro-mastery of an electron-juggling metal that can catalyse, energise, sanitise, oxidise, and antioxidise – provided that it remains in vanishingly small amounts.