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

He's not saying that we are running out of copper, instead Sharp, and many others in the data centre industry, are betting that it will be used less.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Famously hailed as a “ribbon of light,” the bridge has been dark for more than a year after thieves ripped off more than seven miles of copper wire that helped illuminate its arches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

In those days metals were cast into various shapes called ingots, and included in the ship’s cargo were thirty-four four-handled copper ingots called oxhide ingots because they were shaped like a stretched-out oxhide.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

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

He emptied out Russian identity papers, bank notes in the Russian currency, the rouble, and small change in Belorussian coppers.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2022

“This isn’t the local coppers coming down, these are men in dark suits.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2022

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

And I had gone into the sandalwood box where I kept my savings and taken out twenty coppers and four twenty-cent pieces.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He was a man of powerful physique, his skin deep coppered by long exposure to prairie winds and sun.

From Deep Furrows by Hopkins Moorhouse

Her “hull,” or body, was now coppered and neatly painted, while all the rubbish of the building-yard was cleared away, so that everything looked neat and clean.

From The Life of a Ship by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

It does not very much matter whether both ends are coppered before one is soldered up or not.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

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

It seems they sing, Even though coppering is not an easy thing.

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell

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

The practice of coppering, though then fully adopted, had not yet been extended to all vessels.

From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Naturally I'd been prejudiced against him not only by his mother's praise but by his father's steady coppering of the same.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson