Copper (disambiguation)
Copper is a reddish-colored metallic element, widely used in manufacturing and industry.
Copper may also refer to:
Biology
- Lycaeninae, a family of butterflies commonly called the coppers
- Copper Ant-blue, found in Australia, from southern Queensland to Victoria
- Copper Pencil-blue, found along the east coast of Australia, including South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria
- The Copper Underwing (Amphipyra pyramidea), is a moth of the family Noctuidae, distributed across the Palaearctic region
- Copper shark, the common name for Carcharhinus brachyurus, also known as the bronze whaler or narrowtooth shark
- The copper-colored restrepia is a copper-colored orchid
- The 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, known as the Copperhead Rat Snake, a non-venomous species found in southern Asia
- Copper (adder), a venomous pitviper subspecies found in the eastern United States
Geography
- Copper River (Alaska), a 300-mile (480 km) river in south-central Alaska in the United States
- Copper, Jackson County, Oregon, a submerged town
- Copper Mountain (disambiguation)
- Copper Lake, Canada
- Copper Mine Gulch, California, United States
- Copper Mountains, Arizona, United States
- Copper Nunataks, Antarctic Peninsula
- Copper Peak, Michigan, United States
- Copper Salmon Wilderness, Oregon, United States
- Copper Country, an area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States
- Copper, Oregon (disambiguation)
Other
- Copper (color), the color of the metal
- Copper (comic), a web and print comic
- Copper (band), a rock band from Buffalo, New York
- Copper (Knoxville band), an alternative rock band from Knoxville, TN
- Copper (MUD), a DikuMUD based MUD launched in June 1991
- Copper (TV series), a Canadian police drama
- Copper Riot, a major riot which took place in Moscow in 1662
- Copper Age, a phase in human technological development
- Copper, British or Australian slang for a Police officer, hence the North American 'cop' [1]
- Telecommunications jargon for twisted pair connections
- The Manhattan Project's codename for plutonium. Actual copper was called "honest-to-God copper" (a pun on the slang for police officer)
- A coin of low value, brown or copper colored
- A large copper vessel used for heating water and laundry (archaic)
- A boiling tank used in beer brewing
- Copper, short for "co-processor", part of the original Amiga chipset
- Copper, the name of the hound in novel The Fox and the Hound
- Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, also known as COPPeR
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