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Buttermilk spoils if kept in a copper or brass container.

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Buttermilk spoils if kept in a copper or brass container because Brass or copper reacts with organic acid.

Buttermilk contains lactic acid and reacts with brass or copper and poisonous salts formed.

It is the reaction between acid and metal . This reaction is called as electro chemical reaction..

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