copper
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Researchers have developed a new surface coating that can increase condensation heat transfer performance by as much as 5.5 times compared with conventional copper surfaces.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
That represented heat transfer performance up to approximately 5.5 times greater than a conventional copper surface covered by a water film.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Therefore, it is “the default connectivity partner” for customers debating between copper and fiber components, in his view.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Global copper demand is expected to grow to more than 50 million tonnes by 2050, it said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Cold air radiated from a towering indoor fountain that sprayed water over coiled copper tubing, trickling down by some new science to form blocks of ice at its base.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
Its conclusion, following a public consultation, was that the £50 note and coppers should all remain, and that the mix of notes and coins in circulation should be unchanged "for years to come".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2019
Harriet presses Lord Peter to leave it to the coppers, but her spouse can’t resist a case.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
"My royal brother loves tournaments and feasts," Renly Baratheon said, "and he loathes what he calls 'counting coppers.'"
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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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Substantially built of oak throughout; coppered, and copper-fastened.
From The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" by William Heysham Overend
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
The man saw that the gambler was fleecing the farmer, and he had coppered and won of course, thus blocking the dealer’s game.
From Life Gleanings by T. J. Macon
The officers acknowledged to their captors that there were a considerable number more gunboats in the harbour, all new and coppered, very fast, and well fitted for service.
From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Archibald Webb
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 invention of coppering the ships' bottoms, and thus adding to their speed, although generally practiced in England, had been applied in France only to the smaller part of the navy.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
He told husband that he had been "coppering" the market ever since he came to the city and had "taken every trick."
From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin
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
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
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