copper
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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
That justifies higher copper prices and reinforces the case for miners to buy copper growth, rather than building new mines, in some instances, it 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
Statues and plaques made of bronze, which is typically about 88% copper, have become an easy target for metal plunderers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“You didn't steal that copper wire, did you?”
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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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
“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
“You want to say ‘I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
Ranofer had no food to bring, no coppers to buy wine, no companion to talk to, and during his first few days he was too tired and sore to sleep or even rest.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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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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Two lighters, coppered below, bearded with dark green weed, blundered alongside with bags of coal, and soon the gangs, a grimy and ragged collection, were getting the bags aboard, and the winch grumbling away.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
She was coppered; not a sheet of metal was off, not a rent anywhere visible through the length and breadth of the dingy green surface of it.
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
It is the watchword of the most thickly coppered Copperheads.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
On the 8th she was taken into dock, not having been coppered since 1784.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Sir John Ross
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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A method of coppering soldered articles will be described later on.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
On our arrival at Yokohama we were all in good health and the Vega in excellent condition, though, after the long voyage, in want of some minor repairs, of docking, and possibly of coppering.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
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
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