Question: Name a property that copper, silver and gold have in common.
Answer: one s-orbital electron

Question: What makes copper bondings weaker than other metals?
Answer: filled d-electron shell

Question: How is copper normally supplied?
Answer: fine-grained polycrystalline form

Question: What is a weaker form of copper than fine-grained polycrystalline?
Answer: monocrystalline forms

Question: What is the concentration of copper in the earths crust.
Answer: 50 parts per million

Question: How large was the biggest find of copper?
Answer: 420 tonnes

Question: What year was the largest find of copper discovered?
Answer: 1857

Question: How big is the largest copper crystal that has been found?
Answer: 4.4×3.2×3.2 cm

Question: Where was the largest mass of copper found?
Answer: Michigan, US

Question: What was copper called in Greece?
Answer: chalkos

Question: In what area was copper first mined?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: What is the Greek goddess that symbolizes copper?
Answer: Aphrodite

Question: What is the Roman goddess that symbolizes copper?
Answer: Venus

Question: What property does copper have that links it to Aphrodite and Venus?
Answer: lustrous beauty

Question: What are compounds that have a carbon-copper bond called?
Answer: organocopper compounds

Question: What does organocopper compounds reactions toward oxygen form?
Answer: copper(I) oxide

Question: What is produced when copper compounds are treated with organolithium reagents?
Answer: Gilman reagent

Question: Coupling products can be made by substituting Gilman reagent with what?
Answer: alkyl halides

Question: Which form of copper is shock sensitive?
Answer: Copper(I) acetylide

Question: Who used copper to produce art?
Answer: Renaissance sculptors

Question: What is the photographic technology that uses copper called?
Answer: daguerreotype

Question: What famous NY city landmark is made from copper?
Answer: Statue of Liberty

Question: What famous explorers ships was one of the first to have it's hulls made of copper?
Answer: Christopher Columbus

Question: When did The Norddeutsche Affinerie electroplating plant first begin production?
Answer: 1830

Question: What property of copper increases the efficiency of electrical motors?
Answer: conductivity

Question: What percentage of electrical consumption does motor systems use globally?
Answer: 43%-46%

Question: What percentage of electrical consumption does motor systems use in industry?
Answer: 69%

Question: What does the acronym NEMA stand for?
Answer: National Electrical Manufacturers Association

Question: By using copper motor rotor technology it is allowing industry to exceed what standards?
Answer: efficiency standards

Question: Name a compond that can mobilize sold copper?
Answer: Chromobacterium violaceum

Question: What fungi can grow in copper metalliferous soils?
Answer: ericoid mycorrhizal fungi

Question: What fungus protects pine trees from copper toxicity? 
Answer: Suillus luteus

Question: What fungus grows from gold mining solution?
Answer: Aspergillus niger

Question: What fungus helps to soften heavy metal sulfides?
Answer: fungus Aspergillus

Question: What is an intrinsic property of copper-alloy touch surfaces?
Answer: antimicrobial

Question: 355 copper alloys have been proven to kill what percentage of bacteria?
Answer: 99.9%

Question: What does the acronym EPA stand for?
Answer: Environmental Protection Agency

Question: How many copper alloys has the EPA approved as antimicrobial materials?
Answer: 355

Question: What disease do hospitals hope to prevent by installing copper doornobs?
Answer: Legionnaires' disease

Question: What are copper compounds in liquid form used for?
Answer: wood preservative

Question: What does copper wires along with zinc on roofs help to prevent?
Answer: moss

Question: What function does copper serve when used in textile fibers?
Answer: antimicrobial protective fabrics

Question: How is copper used with nickel?
Answer: as a base

Question: What is used to treat structures for dry rot?
Answer: Copper compounds

Question: How long has copper been in use?
Answer: at least 10,000 years

Question: What percentage of copper has been extracted since 1900?
Answer: 95%

Question: How much of mined cooper has been extracted in the last 24 years?
Answer: more than half

Question: How much copper is estimated to exsist on earth?
Answer: 1014 tons

Question: What is a major source of cooper in modern times?
Answer: Recycling

Question: What did Romans use as money in the 6th through 3rd centuriesBC?
Answer: copper lumps

Question: What became more important than the copper value for Roman coins?
Answer: the shape and look

Question: Who had his own coins produced out of brass?
Answer: Julius Caesar

Question: During the 6th through 3rd centuries BC how much copper was mined in Rome?
Answer: 15,000 t

Question: Cctavianus Augustus Caesar had his coins made out of what alloys?
Answer: Cu-Pb-Sn alloys

Question: What percentage of copper is used in electrical wires?
Answer: 60%

Question: What percentage of copper is used in roofing and plumbing?
Answer: 20%

Question: What percentage of copper is used in industrial machinery?
Answer: 15%

Question: What property does combining copper with brass or bronze create?
Answer: hardness

Question: What is a metal that copper is combined with to create a greater hardness?
Answer: brass

Question: What is the explanation for copper's capacity for electrical conductivity?
Answer: The softness

Question: What metal has a higher thermal conductivity than copper?
Answer: silver

Question: What is the maximum premissible current density in open air of copper?
Answer: 3.1×106 A/m2

Question: What occurs when copper is placed touching another metal?
Answer: corrosion

Question: What happens to copper if an electrical current gets too high?
Answer: it begins to heat excessively

Question: In what form is copper extracted?
Answer: copper sulfides

Question: From what types of mines is copper extracted?
Answer: open pit mines

Question: What percentage of copper do the deposits have that are extracted?
Answer: 0.4 to 1.0% copper

Question: What country was the top producer of copper in 2005?
Answer: Chile

Question: What is the name of the process being considered in Arizona that allows copper to be recovered?
Answer: in-situ leach process

Question: What percent of copper is recyclable?
Answer: 100%

Question: What percentage of copper that has been mined is still being used today?
Answer: 80%

Question: What other metal besides copper is 100% recyclable?
Answer: aluminium

Question: Name a metal that is recycled more often than copper?
Answer: aluminium

Question: What is the amount of copper in use, per capita, globally?
Answer: 35–55 kg

Question: What pigment color is natural to copper?
Answer: green

Question: What property does the final patina on cooper have?
Answer: highly resistant to atmospheric corrosion

Question: What mixture of compounds is the final patina?
Answer: carbonate and sulfate

Question: What conditions effect the mixture of carbonate and sulfate in copper?
Answer: environmental

Question: What can be done to copper to give it a certain look?
Answer: finished

Question: What are copper salts sometimes used for?
Answer: suicide attempts

Question: When ingested in large amounts what does copper salts produce in humans?
Answer: copper toxicity

Question: What is the minimum amount of copper rabbits should have in their diet?
Answer: 3 ppm

Question: What is a major benefit to rabbits having a higher concentration of copper in their diet?
Answer: growth rates

Question: What amount of copper salt is toxic in animals?
Answer: 30 mg/kg

Question: When did Britain first use brass?
Answer: 3rd–2nd century BC

Question: Who were the first copper miners in North America?
Answer: Native Americans

Question: Where was native copper extracted with primitive tools between 800 and 1600?
Answer: Isle Royale