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copper

[kop-er] / ˈkɒp ər /














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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

As economies expand, copper will be required to build electricity networks for the transition away from fossil fuels, and to create data centres for artificial intelligence, BHP said.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

Yakov stopped me when I held out a coin, closing my fingers around the copper.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

What does he care for my coppers, except to make sure I do not get them?

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I’ve jest give Mrs. Campbell a bird’s-eye view of your career, so you’re coppered on that bet from the start.”

From Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

On the 8th she was taken into dock, not having been coppered since 1784.

From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Sir John Ross

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

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

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

A method of coppering soldered articles will be described later on.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

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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