Copper
Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from Latin: cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; a freshly exposed surface has a reddish-orange color. It is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, a building material, and a constituent of various metal alloys. The metal and its alloys have been used for thousands of years.
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- He was only about as tall as Dorothy herself, and his body was round as a ball and made out of burnished copper. Also his head and limbs were copper, and these were jointed or hinged to his body in a peculiar way, with metal caps over the joints, like the armor worn by the knights in days of old. He stood perfectly still, and when the light struck upon his form it glittered as if made of pure gold.
- Lyman Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz (1907), Ch. 4
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[edit]- The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
- Thomas Carlyle, in Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 85 (1859), p. 131.
- I looked at the ornaments on the desk. Everything standard and all copper. A copper lamp, pen set and pencil tray, a glass and copper ashtray with a copper elephant on the rim, a copper letter opener, a copper thermos bottle on a copper tray, copper corners on the blotter. holder.There was a spray of almost copper-colored sweet peas in a copper vase.
It seemed like a lot of copper.- Raymond Chandler, The High Window (1942)
- I wol yow telle, as was me taught also,
The foure spirites and the bodies sevene,
By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene.
The firste spirit quiksilver called is,
The seconde orpyment, the thridde, ywis,
Sal armonyak, and the firthe brimstoon.
The bodys sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon:
Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe,
Mars iren, Mercurie quyksilver we clepe,
Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tyn,
And Venus coper, by my fader kyn!- Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale" (The Riverside Chaucer)
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[edit]- God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.
- John Piper, as quoted in in Kevin Cross Embezzlement: A True Crime Story (Bridge Logos Foundation, 2010)
- My copper lamps, at any rate,
For being true antique, I bought;
Yet wisely melted down my plate,
On modern models to be wrought.- Matthew Prior, Alma (1718), Canto III.
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[edit]- Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,
With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 4, scene 4
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[edit]- Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered: I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents; Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
- Ezra 8:24-30 (KJV)
- Instead of the copper I shall bring in gold, and instead of the iron I shall bring in silver, and instead of the wood, copper, and instead of the stones, iron; and I will appoint peace as your overseers and righteousness as your task assigners.
- His feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace; and his voice was as the sound of many waters.
