Copper (disambiguation)
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Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Copper or The Copper may also refer to:
Color
Places
United States
- Copper, Oregon (disambiguation)
- Copper, Jackson County, Oregon, a submerged town
- Copper Salmon Wilderness, Oregon
- Copper Mine Gulch, California
- Copper Mountains, Arizona
- Copper Peak, Michigan
- Copper Country, an area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
- Copper River (Alaska), a 300-mile (480 km) river in south-central Alaska
Other
People
Surname
Nickname
- Copper Kent (1891 – c. 1966), Australian rugby union player
Arts and entertainment
Biology
- Copper-colored restrepia, a copper-colored orchid
- Copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus), also known as the bronze whaler or narrowtooth shark
- Copperhead may refer to any of three different species of snakes:
- Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America
- Austrelaps, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania
- Elaphe radiata (copperhead rat snake), a nonvenomous species found in southern Asia
- The coppers, a nickname for the Lycaeninae, a family of butterflies
- Copper ant-blue (Acrodipsas cuprea), found in Australia, from southern Queensland to Victoria
- Copper pencil-blue (Candalides cyprotus), found along the east coast of Australia, including South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria
- The copper underwing (Amphipyra pyramidea), a moth of the family Noctuidae, distributed across the Palaearctic region
Elements, materials, and technology
- Copper, a coin of low value, brown- or copper-colored
- Copper, a shaped ingot or ornamental sheet of the metal used by indigenous tribes of the North American West Coast region in potlatch ceremonies, as a show of wealth (ingot) and as a symbolic representation of a slave (sheet)
- Copper, telecommunications jargon for twisted pair connections
- Copper, the Manhattan Project's codename for plutonium
- Copper, short for "co-processor", part of the original Amiga chipset
- Copper, a brew kettle for making beer
- Native copper, a naturally occurring mineral consisting of pure copper
- Wash copper or just copper, a large cauldron used for heating water and laundry
Other uses
- Copper ale, a style of beer
- Copper Riot (1662), a major riot which took place in Moscow
- Copper Project, a cloud-based project management software tool
- COPPeR (short for Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region), an arts organization in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Copper Age, a phase in human technological development
- "Copper", British or Australian slang for a police officer, hence the North American 'cop'
- The Copper (building), an apartment building in Manhattan
- Copper Line (San Diego Trolley), a light rail line in San Diego, California
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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