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copper

adjective as in bronze

noun as in auburn

noun as in change

noun as in ore

noun as in police

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The commercial products are being developed with copper-based shape memory alloys, which are softer and don’t need as much force as nickel-titanium alloys.

One model created at the facility is a knit mask woven through with copper, which is being used in medical facilities and by the US military.

Others were made using titanium, copper, chromium or zirconium.

Then he stuffed copper wool into each end to press the powder together.

Under some of the previous rules that were in place, these companies had to maintain those copper networks no matter what, even though these networks were not providing consumers high-capacity, high-quality broadband.

You can find fourteen of these copper creations, all initially containing 3,900 liters of liquid apiece, on the Macallan estate.

But the copper performs another important function: working as a catalyst in the distillation process.

Why the size and shape of a copper still is at the core of whisky distillation.

The151-foot newborn waited in the harbor on her 171-foot pedestal, a huge French flag fluttering over her dark copper face.

After all, there are much larger risks in this world than traces of copper in your water.

The vicar's wife sat before a huge book, in front of her were little piles of copper money.

Beds, in those days, were warmed with copper warming pans, and nightcaps adorned the slumbering heads of both sexes.

Such a furnace worked there for many years, until copper smelting was removed from Cornwall to Wales.

The Japanese use both copper and silver pipes, most of them similar in shape and size to those used by the Chinese.

One evening at tea, a copper kettle, with hot water, stood on the hob.

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On this page you'll find 310 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to copper, such as: burnished, chestnut, russet, rust, tan, and brownish.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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