Possible Interaction: Copper and Sodium Chloride

“The 4 lowest tested NaCl concentrations decreased the lethal effects of Cu to embryos and the incidence of malformations, but the same outcome was not observed for tadpoles.”

“The differences in the levels of copper and zinc showed significant association with the consumption of local salted tea up to 1,500 ml per day, but the changes were insignificant beyond that.”

“Reduction of mucosal NaCl levels inhibited Cu transport while increase caused stimulation; Na2SO4 had an identical effect, implicating Na+ rather than the anion.”

“Exposure of the vesicles to copper significantly stimulated uptake, and in these vesicles uptake was also stimulated by NaCl or KCl gradients.”

“The combined CdxNaCl stresses (vs. control) increased leaf Cd accumulation (up to 42-fold in lettuce and 23-fold in strawberry), whereas NaCl salinity increased the accumulation of Zn (>1.5-fold) and Cu (up to 1.2-fold) in leaves.”

“Analyzing pollution induced community tolerance (PICT) … that the use of pure Cu salts may … effects if Cu salt additions modified the soil pH. The highest doses of Cu salts increased bacterial community tolerance to … 300 and 600 times, while commercial Cu fungicide increases were between 20 and 160 times.”

“The plants … to NaCl … Cu in combination exhibited a significant decline in fresh and dry mass of plant, chlorophyll content, activities of carbonic anhydrase, net photosynthetic rate … maximum quantum yield of the PSII primary photochemistry followed by NaCl and Cu stress alone, more severely in Jumbo than in Rocket.”

“Concentrations of copper in Spirulina sp. decreased with increasing concentrations of NaCl.”

“When the electrolyte used was NaCl , the amounts of Cu adsorbed were reduced.”

“However, the effect of the type of chlorinating agent on the chlorination of heavy metals differed considerably, where NaCl had the weakest effect on the removal rate of Cu , Cd and Zn.”