| 单词 | red copper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred copper red copper n. a form of native cuprous oxide, cuprite n.extracted from coppern.1red copper red copper n. (a) copper of a distinctive red colour, esp. pure copper as opposed to impure or alloyed forms; (b) (now rare) = red copper ore n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > copper ore > types of red copper1507 misy1543 grey copper1590 yellow ore1630 grey orea1728 pitch ore1776 red copper ore1776 fahlerz1796 tile-ore1823 cuprite1850 lettsomite1850 velvet copper-ore1850 yellows1851 meneghinite1852 peacock copper1858 peacock ore1858 horseflesh ore1868 plush-copper1881 1507 Bk. Rates 15 July in N. S. B. Gras Early Eng. Customs Syst. (1918) 696 Coper called rede coper whether ytt be rownd or square the c xvi s. viii d. 1580 J. Florio tr. J. Cartier Shorte Narr. Two Nauigations Newe Fraunce i. 32 Our men tolde vs that there was the beginning of Saguenay, and that it was land inhabited, and that thence commeth the redde Copper, of them named Caignetdaze. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia 243 Native red Copper free from other Metals, that was found in the Country of Mansfield in its proper Veins. 1770 tr. J.-B. Chappe d'Auteroche Journey into Siberia 218 The red copper is so very analogous to the red silver in this mine, that it is only to be distinguished from this metal by fusion. 1806 Monthly Rev. 50 520 The bronze of the antients..never consisted of pure or red copper, but always admitted an alloy of tin into its composition. 1829 A. Ure New Syst. Geol. i. v. 127 Crystals of red copper were observed on an old copper statue found in the Soane, in the year 1766. 1918 Man 18 11 Certain lodes in the cliff yielded red copper (Lizard), others yielded tough copper or bronze (St. Just, St. Ives, Mount's Bay), and still others white copper or tin. 2006 Harper's Mag. (Nexis) Dec. 57 Bobby turns out to be a one-man commodities board of the latest scrap prices. ‘Red copper, 150 pesos a kilo at junk shop.’ < as lemmas |
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