copper
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It will gradually turn a reddish, copper color as sunlight bends and filters through the atmosphere to fall on the otherwise-obscured part of the moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
To test the technology under conditions closer to real-world applications, the researchers applied the polymer coating to copper tubes commonly used in condensers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
The company is a leader across copper and fiber AI connectors, Daryanani noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The world’s biggest miner by market value reported a 9% increase in annual net profit and an even bigger gain in underlying earnings as prices of copper surged to all-time highs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The guinea pig set out four copper cups and stuck cinnamon sticks in each, with a splash of milk and sugar.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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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
“You want to say `I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
It conjures up the image of people throwing their smartphones, rather than coppers, into a fountain for good luck - although Downing Street has backed away from a plan to scrap copper coins.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2018
Harriet presses Lord Peter to leave it to the coppers, but her spouse can’t resist a case.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
I knew how few coppers they made and how often they had to go without rice but, on the other hand, I felt sorry for those who were chosen.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The French ships also had a great advantage in being coppered, besides which, though respectively carrying the same number of guns as the British, they were much larger vessels.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
Base metals, zinc, pewter, lead, etc., are first coppered in a cyanide of copper solution, as will be described under the head of Copper-plating.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
She was a brand-new vessel, measuring three hundred and seventy-six tons, oak-built, coppered, and copper fastened; of immense beam, and very shallow, drawing only ten feet six inches of water.
From The Log of a Privateersman by W. (William) Rainey
These boats were coppered and fitted with a cabin at the after part.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
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
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The French ships, larger, deeper, and with better lines than their opponents, were naturally better sailers, and it may be inferred that even coppering had not entirely overcome this original disadvantage of the British.
From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
A method of coppering soldered articles will be described later on.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
It seems they sing, Even though coppering is not an easy thing.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
This year also the experiment for coppering ships’ bottoms as a preservation against worms was introduced into the Royal Navy, and tried on the Alarm frigate, of 32 guns.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
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