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copper

[kop-er] / ˈkɒp ər /














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Jen Scott accepted a plastic cup and scooped up a pea-sized dab containing GHK-Cu, a copper tripeptide frequently used in topical beauty products for its reported skin-firming properties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

In areas that had escaped the worst damage, testing identified an underlying silver and copper alloy.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Barrick is aiming for sequential increases in gold output each quarter and for copper output to stabilize in the third and fourth quarters of this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

When the X-rays struck the copper, they knocked electrons out of the atoms' innermost electron shells, leaving behind empty positions known as 'holes'.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

Not like the brazen giants of Greek fame, nor that mighty woman and her torch of copper.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

The record ratings came as a trailer for the finale suggested that it may, for better or worse, bring an end to AC-12's hunt for bent coppers.

From BBC ● May 1, 2021

He took two old coppers from his pocket and put them in the drawer to make up the deficiency.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He had examined a coppered ship under repair, and found the bolts corroded and eaten away.

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

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

Base metals, zinc, pewter, lead, etc., are first coppered in a cyanide of copper solution, as will be described under the head of Copper-plating.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

She had then been recaulked and coppered; besides having her rigging set up again and tarred down, as well as the coverings and seizings replaced, and the chaffing gear paid over.

From Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

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

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

When both ends are silvered the process of coppering by electro deposit is commenced.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

This year also the experiment for coppering ships’ bottoms as a preservation against worms was introduced into the Royal Navy, and tried on the Alarm frigate, of 32 guns.

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

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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