What industrial items contain copper?

Answer 1

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with an excellent thermal and electrical conductivity. Copper is rather supple in its pure state and (when fresh) has a pinkish or peachy color, which (besides gold) is unusual for metals, which are usually silvery or grayish. It is used as a thermal conductor, an electrical conductor, a building material, and a constituent of various metal alloys.Copper is an essential trace nutrient to all high plant and animal life. In animals, including humans, it is found primarily in the bloodstream, as a co-factor in various enzymes and in copper-based pigments. However, in sufficient amounts, copper can be poisonous and even fatal to organisms.

Copper can be found in all those below:-Electromagnets.Printed circuit boards.Lead free solder, alloyed with tin.Electrical machines, especially electromagnetic motors, generators and Transformers.Electrical relays, electrical busbars and electrical switches.Vacuum tubes, cathode ray tubes, and the magnetrons in microwave ovens.Wave guides for microwave radiation.Integrated circuits, increasingly replacing aluminum because of its superior electrical conductivity.As a material in the manufacture of computer heat sinks, as a result of its superior heat dissipation capacity to aluminum.Copper has been used as water-proof roofing material since ancient times, giving many old buildings their greenish roofs and domes. Initially copper oxide forms, replaced by cuprous and cupric sulfide, and finally by copper carbonate. The final carbonate patina is highly resistant to corrosion.Alloyed with nickel, e.g. cupronickel and Monel, used as corrosive assistant materials in shipbuilding.Watt's steam engine firebox due to superior heat dissipation.Copper nails were used in making oast cowls.Copper compounds are used as wood preservatives.Copper compounds in liquid form are used as a wood preservative, particularly in treating original portion of structures during restoration of damage due to dry rot.Copper wires may be placed over non-conductive roofing materials to discourage the growth of moss. (Zinc may also be used for this purpose.)

Copper plumbing fittings and compression tubes.Doorknobs and other fixtures in houses.Roofing, guttering, and rainspouts on buildings.In cookware, such as frying pans.Most flatware (knives, forks, spoons) contains some copper (nickel silver).Sterling silver, if it is to be used in dinnerware, must contain a few percent copper.Copper water heating cylindersCopper Range HoodsCopper Bath TubsCopper CountersCopper SinksCopper slug tape

As a component of coins, often as cupronickel alloy.Coins in the following countries all contain copper: European Union (Euro), United States, United Kingdom (sterling), Australia and New Zealand.U.S. Nickels are 75.0% copper by weight and only 25.0% nickel.

As a biostatic surface in hospitals, and to line parts of ships to protect against barnacles and mussels, originally used pure, but superseded by Muntz metal. Bacteria will not grow on a copper surface because it is biostatic. Copper doorknobs are used by hospitals to reduce the transfer of disease, and Legionnaires' disease is suppressed by copper tubing in air-conditioning systems.Copper sulfate is used as a fungicide and as algae control in domestic lakes and ponds. It is used in gardening powders and sprays to kill mildew.Copper-62-PTSM, a complex containing radioactive copper-62, is used as a Positron emission tomography radiotracer for heart blood flow measurements.Copper-64 can be used as a Positron emission tomography radiotracer for medical imaging. When complexed with a chelate it can be used to treat cancer through radiation therapy.

Compounds, such as Fehling's solution, have applications in chemistry.As a component in ceramic glazes, and to colour glass.

Musical Instruments, especially brass instruments and timpani.Class D Fire Extinguisher, used in powder form to extinguish lithium fires by covering the burning metal and performing similar to a heat sink.Textile fibers to create antimicrobial protective fabrics.Small arms ammunition commonly uses copper as a jacketing material around the bullet core.Copper is also commonly used as a case material, in the form of brass.Copper is used as a liner in shaped-charge armour-piercing warheads.Copper is frequently used in electroplating with Zinc and other metals.Copper/Chlorine ions are injected into seawater systems as a biocide to prevent marine growth within the seawater pumping system.

Answer 2

Bronze, brass Yellow and Red and Muntz metals and other alloys

Answer 3

Some products which contain copper are pipes and pans.

Answer 4

aything with a motor. normal insulated wire for appliances. ATM i am ripping copper out of microwaves they have about 2lb in them which is worth around £3

Answer 5

cans, pennies, wires, and many more things.

Answer 6

Four products made of copper are coins, wires, electronics and brass instruments

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