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copper

[kop-er] / ˈkɒp ər /














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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

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

Therefore, it is “the default connectivity partner” for customers debating between copper and fiber components, in his view.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

FY27 guidance is also soft due to lower-than-anticipated forecast copper output and higher-than-anticipated all-in sustaining costs, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The pot looks entirely too fancy for a bird rescue, with its rolled copper edges and pristine silver handles.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

In a nod to modernity, the buckets possessed a QR code on the outside - for digital donations - as well as coppers and some notes on the inside.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2024

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

“You want to say `I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’

From Washington Times Oct. 13, 2020

One night it would be Vayon Poole, and the talk would be coppers and bread stores and servants.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

But by 1783 ships of every class were coppered.

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

The French ships also had a great advantage in being coppered, besides which, though respectively carrying the same number of guns as the British, they were much larger vessels.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston

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

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

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

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

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

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell




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