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Dickens protagonist rebuffs field officer
Answer for the clue "Dickens protagonist rebuffs field officer ", 6 letters:
copper
Alternative clues for the word copper
- Used as an electrical and thermal conductor
- Kettle material
- One of the fuzz
- (informal) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- Penny, to a Brit
- Fall first right away for figure in force
- Ductile metal
- Occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses
- Conductor of note
Word definitions for copper in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
malleable metallic element, Old English coper , from Proto-Germanic *kupar (cognates: Middle Dutch koper , Old Norse koparr , Old High German kupfar ), from Late Latin cuprum , contraction of Latin Cyprium (aes) "Cyprian (metal)," after Greek Kyprios "Cyprus" ...
Usage examples of copper.
And when I asked him how an abo could possibly have known what copper looked like in the ground, he said the man had been employed at one of the mines near Nullagine.
The two women disappeared behind the afterclap, the canvas screen at the back of the wagon, and Sarah called for the servants to bring the copper hip bath and buckets of hot water from the cooking fire.
Pirem handed over a coin before Ager could dig out any coppers from his purse.
What little currency Alec had seen were crude lozenges of copper or silver, distinguished only by weight and a few crude symbols struck in.
Turning out his own pouch, Alec added two copper halfs and the Skalan silver piece.
Springs, alembics, coils of copper tubing, buckled sheets of metal, gear systems both rack-and-pinion and epicyclic, pendulums, levers, cams, cranks, differentials, bearings, pulleys, assorted tools, and stone jars containing alkahest and corrosive substances crowded every horizontal surface.
Suhl, about forty miles to the east, to see igneous granites, rhyolites, and andesites, as well the copper mines of nearby Goldlauter.
To this last is joined a drying-tube containing chloride of calcium and anhydrous copper sulphate.
Dipped ordinary paper in an aqueous solution of sulphate of copper and carbonate of ammonia and then added alkaline solutions of cochineal or equivalent coloring matter.
There at present nothing is talked of but copper mines and silver or argentiferous copper ores.
Its chief ores are smaltite and cobaltite, which are arsenides of cobalt, with more or less iron, nickel, and copper.
The salts of silver, mercury, gold, copper, nickel, and platinum, chromic and arsenious acids, cause great inflection with extreme quickness, and are deadly poisons.
She dragged a heavy copper tube out of the next crate, wiping a thick slurry of ashy mud off the mottled green surface.
If the substance to be assayed is an alloy of silver and copper, first cupel 0.
Suppose the bullion being assayed varies only a little, up or down, from 900 gold and 100 copper in the thousand, and that .