Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., the metal copper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Copper.
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Examples
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Quum famuli nostri offerebant eis ipperpera, ipsi fricabant digitis, et ponebant ad nares, vt odore, sentirent, vtrum essent cuprum.
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Quum famuli nostri offerebant eis ipperpera, ipsi fricabant digitis, et ponebant ad nares, vt odore, sentirent, vtrum essent cuprum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In this way Fe (ferrum) indicates iron, Cu (cuprum), copper, Au (aurum), gold.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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Vet parcius ferrum quantitatem intelUga, qux cuprum non fuperat, uti per ferrVim uberius, quae cuprum ponderc excedit.
Torberni Bergman, ... sciagraphia regni mineralis: secundum principia proxima digesti Torbern Bergman 1783
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