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单词 copper
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copper
(kɒpəʳ )
Word forms: coppers
1. uncountable noun B2
Copper is a reddish-brown metal that is used to make things such as coins and electrical wires.
Chile is the world's largest producer of copper.
...a copper mine.
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Copper is sometimes used to describe things that are reddish-brown in colour. [literary]
His hair has reverted back to its original copper hue.
3. countable noun
Coppers are brown metal coins of low value. [mainly British, informal]
4. countable noun
A copper is a police officer. [British, informal]
...your friendly neighbourhood copper.
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copper deposits
It has the world's richest copper deposits, with grades of 4.5 per cent copper per tonne of ore versus 0.75 per cent for world-class mining projects elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times
Copper deposits from the mint leached into the soil and stained skeletons buried beneath.
Times, Sunday Times
The copper deposits had been all but depleted by the 18th century, but new industries, such as timber, paper, and textiles, developed.
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The ancient pits and trenches led to the discovery of many of the copper deposits that were mined in the 19th century.
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The town has magnesite, gold, silver and copper deposits.
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copper dome
The building received its distinctive copper dome in 1893.
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The building has a terra cotta tile roof, and central tower with copper dome.
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The copper dome, however, was removed and put into storage.
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The observatory building itself started construction, and the eighty-ton sixty-one-foot (18.6 m) copper dome arrived in 1933.
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A copper dome with a weather-vane tops the four-stage tower.
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copper mine
The lawsuit comes on the eighteenth day of a strike at the world 's largest copper mine.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Nine teams of rescuers were trying to contact three miners missing underground after an earthquake killed five others in Europe's largest copper mine.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
copper mining
Tin and copper mining flourished on the moor in the 19th century, and pump houses and spoil tips can still be seen.
Times, Sunday Times
Cobalt, a by-product of copper mining, has trebled in value over the past two years.
Times, Sunday Times
The rise in oil output offset large falls in profits from its zinc, iron ore and copper mining operations.
Times, Sunday Times
It also reported increases in gold and silver output, a by-product of its copper mining.
Times, Sunday Times
All copper mining was done by underground methods until the early 20th century.
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copper ore
A single train in 1915 carried out $345,050 worth of copper ore ($8.5 million today).
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They not only lacked adequate supplies of copper ore, but also did not have the technological skill needed to produce large sheets of malleable copper.
The Times Literary Supplement
Fortunately for the owners, a new vein of copper ore was discovered in 1884.
The Times Literary Supplement
By 1832 the mine's previously rich deposits of copper ore were substantially worked-out and the mine was in danger of closing.
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Copper ore was extracted for some time in the mid-1700s.
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copper pan
Smooth the butter over the base of a 15cm diameter, 5cm deep copper pan.
Times,Sunday Times
It was traditionally made in a paiolo: a wide, round-bottomed, copper pan, but any heavy-bottomed pan will do.
Times, Sunday Times
The roast potatoes, in a separate copper pan, were very hot.
Times, Sunday Times
It was presented in a copper pan.
Times, Sunday Times
The kitchen cupboards and shelves are full of ceramic bowls and copper pans.
Times, Sunday Times
copper pipe
We pulled him over and saw some copper pipe and an old radiator hidden beneath a load of garden waste.
The Sun
With them he had brought 'a warehouse of copper pipe'.
Times, Sunday Times
We once checked an ongoing leak and, following a comprehensive investigation, we found an old copper pipe that had been seeping from the cold water storage tank in the loft.
Times, Sunday Times
The single-cylinder pump would draw several gallons of water from beneath the boat and send it down a copper pipe to the stern.
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Some of the copper pipe and wiring has also been removed.
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copper plate
It has a minimum order of 200 sheets, for which it charges 155 (but the next time round, it would be 135 because the copper plate has been made).
Times, Sunday Times
He painted in water colors, practiced copper plate engraving and etching.
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These places as known from copper plate records and other archeological finds, were important center of culture during the medieval period.
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The art of copper plate engraving was the technology required at that time for printing images and drawings as part of books.
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After being drawn, each paper sheet was placed over a waxed copper plate and the lines were traced manually to produce the engraving.
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copper pot
Then a copper pot of sweetbreads - served with bean sauce, garlic and separate veggies.
Times, Sunday Times
My rabbit arrived in a large copper pot, there were also petit pois with onions, bacon, more ratatouille and pommes boulangère.
Times, Sunday Times
I had a little copper pot of mangetout and another of peas and onions.
Times, Sunday Times
And that copper pot used to be on grandma's coal-range; always said things went downhill when central heating came along.
Times, Sunday Times
Others filled a large burnished copper pot, the metal perfectly complementing the showy blooms.
Times, Sunday Times
copper price
Mining stocks lost ground as the copper price began to fall.
Times, Sunday Times
Any recovery in the copper price would be an extra boon, though, to be fair, this looks a way off.
Times, Sunday Times
Much the same goes for the bank's copper price prediction.
ST
Sources close to the miners played down fear of any fallout from a further drop in the copper price.
Times, Sunday Times
Since 2008, the copper price has leapt 14% and oil has risen a fifth.
Times, Sunday Times
copper producer
The world's leading copper producer hopes that large companies will voluntarily pay the tax, which cannot be forced on them under an agreement signed in 2005.
Times, Sunday Times
Workers at the world's largest copper producer voted to strike after rejecting a collective contract offer.
Times, Sunday Times
Shares in the copper producer initially rocketed by more than a fifth, but fell back slightly in the afternoon.
Times, Sunday Times
It may even be the largest copper producer in the world by 2019.
Times, Sunday Times
Shortly before and after, but not during, the revolutionary war, the mine was a major copper producer.
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copper roof
It's got turrets, a green copper roof and onion-shaped toppings to all its corners.
Times, Sunday Times
Half was ring-fenced to repair the copper roof and the cladding.
Times, Sunday Times
The top of the 100-metre-high scaffold was removed last week to reveal a new copper roof.
Globe and Mail
It's fair to say that the original, with its copper roof - a hyperbolic paraboloid - was not an unqualified success.
Times, Sunday Times
But you can pay an extra 1,400 for cedar shingles (wooden tiles) or an extra 1,500 for a copper roof.
Times, Sunday Times
copper smelter
The prehispanic furnace built over 800 years ago, was used for copper smelter.
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In 1960, two large roasters and a second, larger, reverberatory furnace were constructed to expand the copper smelter capacity to 70,000 t of blister copper per year.
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By 1800 nine copper smelters were in production in the valley.
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A railway had been opened to the town and copper smelters were operating by 1917, and by 1918 the population was recorded as 750 people.
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Flash smelters account for over 50% of the world's copper smelters.
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copper tube
One establishes a connection between the receptacle and the generator by means of a copper tube.
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The company also diversified into copper-based products, including a copper tube manufacturing business and fertilizers.
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This type of unit uses turns of copper tube wound into an electromagnetic coil.
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The copper tube types used for water service applications commonly uses a flare to iron pipe connection when connecting to the main or the meter.
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Oil from a tank in the fuselage was cooled by passing through a spiral copper tube exposed to the slipstream atop the cowling.
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copper tubing
The businesses distribute copper tubing and plumbing parts.
Times, Sunday Times
The exhaled gas was cooled by sea water after passing through copper tubing.
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Rigid sections of liquid line are usually made using copper tubing, although in some applications, steel pipes are used instead.
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Ignition and other controls operated though flexible cables encased in copper tubing, which followed contemporary aircraft industry practice.
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In the early 20th century, cartridges made from glass and thin copper tubing were made.
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copper wiring
On his forehead he bears the scratches from a fight over a strand of copper wiring.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Men were pulling out the copper wiring and pipes.
Aidan Hartley THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War (2003)
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