Copper (disambiguation)

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

Copper or The 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

Arts and entertainment

• Copper (comic), a web and print comic by Kazu Kibuishi
• Copper (TV series), a BBC America period TV drama 2012–2013
• Rookie Blue (working title Copper), a Canadian police drama 2010–2015
• The Copper (1930 film), a British-German film directed by Richard Eichberg
• The Copper (1958 film), a West German film directed by Eugen York
• "Copper", a song by Shellac from Terraform
• Copper, a fictional dog in the 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound (novel) and its 1981 film adaptation, The Fox and the Hound

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, a shaped ingot or ornamental sheet of the metal used by indigenous tribes of the North American West Coast region in potlatch ceremonies, as a show of wealth (ingot) and as a symbolic representation of a slave (sheet)
• 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
• Native copper, a naturally occurring mineral consisting of pure copper
• 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'
• The Copper (building), an apartment building in Manhattan
• Copper Line (San Diego Trolley), a light rail line in San Diego, California

See also

• Capper (disambiguation)
• Coppa (disambiguation)
• Coppers (disambiguation)
• Koppa (disambiguation)
• Isotopes of copper
• All pages with titles beginning with Copper
• All pages with titles containing Copper