COPPER

Copper

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; a freshly exposed surface has a reddish-orange color. It is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, a building material, and a constituent of various metal alloys.

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copper

Noun

  1. a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
  2. Something made of copper.
  3. The reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
  4. A copper coin.
  5. A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In New Zealand at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney. Generally made redundant by the advent of the washing machine.
    Mum would heat the water in a copper in the kitchen and transfer it to the tin bath.
    I explain that socks can’t be boiled up in the copper with the sheets and towels or they shrink.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A policeman.

Verb

  1. To sheathe or coat with copper.

Adjective

  1. Made of copper.
  2. Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.


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