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black copper

noun

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


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

The same method is adopted for taking out the black copper in successive layers.

The refining of this black copper is performed in a kind of reverberatory furnace.

The black copper oxide is reduced to reddish metallic copper by the carbon monoxide, which is thereby changed to carbon dioxide.

I lifted up the head which covered his treasure, when to his surprise a few black copper cents made their appearance.

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