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
The company is a leader across copper and fiber AI connectors, Daryanani noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
As the copper transformed, protons inside the nucleus shifted their positions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
The miner also reported record iron ore production and a strong result in coal, but copper was the star commodity and expected to remain so.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
To help fund the war effort, the Hitler Youth went door-to-door, collecting brass, copper, scrap metal, razor blades, paper, and bottles to be recycled.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
Could the man seemingly most committed to rooting out bent coppers be the worst of them all?
From BBC ● May 1, 2021
“You want to say `I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
Harriet presses Lord Peter to leave it to the coppers, but her spouse can’t resist a case.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
“The coppers have been secretly searching rooms and interrogating automats. They took Feste.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Why I don’t believe it is, because I’ve seed the creature stickin’ just the same way to the coppered bottom o’ a ship, and likewise to the sides o’ rocks under the water.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid
Lucy—brigantine; 520 tons; oak-built, coppered, and copper-fastened throughout; has only been to sea twice; excellent sea-boat, very fast and weatherly; fully found in every respect, and quite ready for sea.
From The Voyage of the Aurora by Harry Collingwood
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
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
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
Well, have your own way; but I'll fool you again, while you're coppering me.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson
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
It seems they sing, Even though coppering is not an easy thing.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
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