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copper

/kop-er/US // ˈkɒp ər //UK // (ˈkɒpə) //

铜,铜器,铜矿,铜制

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a malleable, ductile, metallic element having a characteristic reddish-brown color: used in large quantities as an electrical conductor and in the manufacture of alloys, as brass and bronze. Symbol: Cu; atomic weight: 63.54; atomic number: 29; specific gravity: 8.92 at 20°C.
    • : a metallic reddish brown.
    • : a coin composed of copper, bronze, or the like, as the U.S. cent or the British penny.
    • : any of several butterflies of the family Lycaenidae, as Lycaena hypophleas, having copper-colored wings spotted and edged with black.
    • : a container made of copper.
    • : a tool partly or wholly made of copper: a soldering copper.
    • : British. a large kettle, now usually made of iron, used for cooking or to boil laundry.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : made of copper: copper kettles.
    • : reddish-brown; coppery: The copper sun sank into the sea.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cover, coat, or sheathe with copper.
    • : Informal. hedge.

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Examples

  • The commercial products are being developed with copper-based shape memory alloys, which are softer and don’t need as much force as nickel-titanium alloys.

  • One model created at the facility is a knit mask woven through with copper, which is being used in medical facilities and by the US military.

  • Others were made using titanium, copper, chromium or zirconium.

  • Then he stuffed copper wool into each end to press the powder together.

  • Under some of the previous rules that were in place, these companies had to maintain those copper networks no matter what, even though these networks were not providing consumers high-capacity, high-quality broadband.

  • You can find fourteen of these copper creations, all initially containing 3,900 liters of liquid apiece, on the Macallan estate.

  • But the copper performs another important function: working as a catalyst in the distillation process.

  • Why the size and shape of a copper still is at the core of whisky distillation.

  • The151-foot newborn waited in the harbor on her 171-foot pedestal, a huge French flag fluttering over her dark copper face.

  • After all, there are much larger risks in this world than traces of copper in your water.

  • The vicar's wife sat before a huge book, in front of her were little piles of copper money.

  • Beds, in those days, were warmed with copper warming pans, and nightcaps adorned the slumbering heads of both sexes.

  • Such a furnace worked there for many years, until copper smelting was removed from Cornwall to Wales.

  • The Japanese use both copper and silver pipes, most of them similar in shape and size to those used by the Chinese.

  • One evening at tea, a copper kettle, with hot water, stood on the hob.