copper
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To investigate how Alzheimer's-related plaques develop, Yarahmadian created a mathematical framework that simulates the chemical reactions involved when metals such as copper and zinc interact with amyloid-beta.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
"At the time you think it might be copper or iron washing down through the landscape but it stank and it was sort of oily all over her coat," Donna added.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Copper’s red-hot rally this year reflects a dislocation, according to Charles Cooper, head of copper research at Wood Mackenzie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
My maternal grandmother, Marcela Miranda, was born in Arizona’s copper country in 1914 and lived in the United States until she was about 7.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
In the low light of the lamp its burnished scales shone like polished copper.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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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
In it he said: "Look at how many coppers there are in my house... That, ladies and gentlemen, is the country that we live in."
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023
“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
The smells were making her mouth water, but she did not have three coppers ... or one.
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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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
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
The bell-tower, which is very high, is a great square tower to the left of the choir, surmounted by a steeple formerly covered with wooden shingles, but in recent times coppered.
From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
During action this becomes coppered, while in contact with the sulphate of copper, but it is not attacked by the acid.
From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by S. R. Bottone
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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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
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
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