copper

Using a hand-held X-ray fluorescence scanner, Packard-Grams found that some of those documents contain ink with lead and/or copper.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

“This holds true across physical copper, gold, silver, and platinum, as well as copper and gold equities,” the bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

"I think we're at the end of copper," says Chris Sharp, the chief technology officer at data centre operator Digital Reality.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The national average price of copper at recycling centers is from $3 to $4.50 per pound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

She wears several necklaces of pearls and copper, and a mantle of deerskin over one shoulder.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Her odyssey also takes her to Falster, an island at the bottom of the country, where she finds “a cluster of sooty coppers on a few glossy yellow flowers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Mette, who has been with the department for 18 years, told "young coppers" they have a "long way to go."

From Fox News ● Oct. 21, 2021

Could the man seemingly most committed to rooting out bent coppers be the worst of them all?

From BBC ● May 1, 2021

There do exist bent coppers as the saying goes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018

The smells were making her mouth water, but she did not have three coppers ... or one.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.

From Time Magazine Archive

Substantially built of oak throughout; coppered, and copper-fastened.

From The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" by William Heysham Overend

During action this becomes coppered, while in contact with the sulphate of copper, but it is not attacked by the acid.

From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by S. R. Bottone

In former ships of war, a fine white painted line or bend, representing the deep line of flotation, on the coppered edge.—Load water-line.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

She had then been recaulked and coppered; besides having her rigging set up again and tarred down, as well as the coverings and seizings replaced, and the chaffing gear paid over.

From Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Clampett & Co. expect to get richer still on royalties, and are coppering their bet by making a round-the-world tour, beating bandits and fattening the market for their book.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, at a temperature of 50° C. the above receipt gives an excellent coppering liquid, which will coat zinc with a fine reguline deposit.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

Not that you have not played your game well enough, but there never was a game played so well that some other fellow could not win by coppering it.

From 54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough

Later I asked husband what "coppering" meant and he smiled and said: "betting that it will not win."

From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin

Every thing necessary for repairing a vessel appeared to be on hand, and Mr. C. was then engaged in coppering the one on his dock.

From Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by W. Hastings Macaulay