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Copper (disambiguation)


Copper (disambiguation)


Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

Copper or The Copper may also refer to:

Color

  • Copper (color), the color of the metal
  • Copper (heraldry), when used as a metal tincture in heraldry

Places

  • Copper Mountain (disambiguation)
  • Copper Lake (disambiguation)

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

  • Copper Coast or "Copper Triangle", an area of South Australia noted for its mining
  • Copper Nunataks, Antarctic Peninsula

People

Surname

  • Copper family, a long-established English family of folk singers
  • Basil Copper (1924–2013), English writer and journalist
  • Ger Copper (1953-2020), Dutch magician
  • Kahleah Copper (born 1994), basketball player
  • Terrance Copper (born 1982), American footballer

Nickname

  • Copper Kent (1891 – c. 1966), Australian rugby union player

Arts and entertainment

  • Copper (comic), a web and print comic by Kazu Kibuishi
  • Copper (TV series), a BBC America period TV drama 2012–2013
  • Rookie Blue (working title Copper), a Canadian police drama 2010–2015
  • The Copper (1930 film), a British-German film directed by Richard Eichberg
  • The Copper (1958 film), a West German film directed by Eugen York
  • "Copper", a song by Shellac from Terraform
  • Copper, a fictional dog in the 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound (novel) and its 1981 film adaptation, The Fox and the Hound

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

See also

  • Capper (disambiguation)
  • Coppa (disambiguation)
  • Coppers (disambiguation)
  • Koppa (disambiguation)
  • Isotopes of copper
  • All pages with titles beginning with Copper
  • All pages with titles containing Copper

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