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Copper

A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.

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Cent 76% connected

A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.

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Centime 76% connected

The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.

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Coat 76% connected

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

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Conductor 76% connected

One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.

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Mahogany 76% connected

A large tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America.

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Metal 76% connected

An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmet…

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Officer 76% connected

One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police office…

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Penny 76% connected

Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pou…

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Sepia 76% connected

The common European cuttlefish.

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Bornite 70% connected

A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upo…

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Brass 70% connected

An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes cont…

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Bronze 70% connected

An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used fo…

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Chalcocite 70% connected

Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster.

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Chalcopyrite 70% connected

Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a…

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Cuprite 70% connected

The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

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Malachite 70% connected

Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

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Bull 92% connected

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

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Cop 92% connected

The top of a thing; the head; a crest.

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Fuzz 92% connected

To make drunk.

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Pig 92% connected

A piggin.

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