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
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In this way Fe (ferrum) indicates iron, Cu (cuprum), copper, Au (aurum), gold.
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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
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