This little antique/ vintage toy coffee pot is 999,700 ppm copper on the outside (basically a pure copper exterior), but the inside (which would touch an beverage poured into it by a child is positive for cadmium when tested with an XRF instrument: Cadmium reading: 1,248 +/- 154 ppm. Read more about cadmium toxicity here.
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I see a lot of jewelry called “antique copper”; does it tend to have more toxins than modern copper? What about “chocolatell copper”, like in the pendants sold by “The Oily Amulet” on Etsy? I want to buy an essential oil diffuser aromatherapy pendant that holds large felt pads, but I don’t want one with lead or cadmium or nickel, etc., because I’m allergic to nickel. A study found that SARS-CoV-2 can survive on a copper surface for four hours. 12 hours if some mathematical model is applied, according to Wikipedia.