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black copper

American  

noun

Metallurgy.
  1. a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.


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Looking at the flock, Ms. Saye pointed out a bantam Easter egger, a breed that lays blue eggs, and the black copper marans, a breed that is appreciated especially by French chefs for their eggs.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2014

This time a face, a high forehead, came moonlike to the black copper screen: "Who are you?"

From Time Magazine Archive

And for the lady of devastating chic and ophidian fascination, who looks forward to penthouses rather than backward at palazzos, is the Cadillac-Fleetwood Art Moderne, a sleek transformable cabriolet in aluminum, black, copper, snakewood.

From Time Magazine Archive

The black, copper coffin was placed upon a gun carriage and draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Black Palmer—dubbed with black copper coloured peacock's harl, and a black cock's hackle over that, wings, blackbird.

From The Teesdale Angler by R. Lakeland

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