Copper (disambiguation)

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

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

Art, entertainment, and media

Copper (comic), a web and print comic
"Copper", the last song by minimalist rock trio Shellac on their album Terraform
Copper, a fictional coonhound in The Fox and the Hound, for both between the novel and film
Copper (TV series), a BBC America period TV drama
Copper, a Canadian police drama now known as Rookie Blue

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, an ornamental sheet of metal used by the indigenous tribes of the North American West Coast region, and a symbolic representation of a slave in potlatch ceremonies
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
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'

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