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copper atom diagram

Diagram of a copper atom

What is copper?

Copper is a kind of atom that has only i electron in the outermost ring.

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Where does copper come from?

Copper is a fairly heavy atom, that can only be fabricated inside a crimson giant star. When the cherry-red giant star has finished making copper and moved on to heavier kinds of atoms, eventually it explodes into a supernova and shoots out the copper atoms along with lots of other kinds of atoms.

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How did copper go to World?

All of the copper in the universe comes from this process. Copper came to World when the Globe first formed out of a nebula cloud. All animals and nearly plants need copper in order to make some of their enzymes.

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Copper is a kind of metal

reddish metal penny coin

A copper penny

Considering copper atoms accept only one electron in their outer beat out, like silver and aureate, it'southward a kind of metal, and information technology's very like shooting fish in a barrel for copper to share electrons with other atoms to brand bigger molecules.

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Does copper rust?

Copper atoms can combine with each other to make pure copper, or they can combine with oxygen to make copper oxide (like rust, but with copper instead of iron).

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When did people start to use copper?

Starting around 3000 BC, people all over the world began to mix copper with tin to make bronze. People found copper by digging mines; at that place were copper mines on pretty much every continent, and people made bronze everywhere but North America and Australia.

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Why is copper important today?

Only copper is even more important to us today. Copper makes it particularly easy for electrons to movement from one atom to the next, and that makes copper a practiced metal for moving electricity from ane identify to some other.

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We use copper wire inside electric cords to motility electricity from the wall to your calculator, and nosotros wrap copper wire around magnets to produce electricity.

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Bibliography and further reading nigh copper and chemistry:

Tin
Bronze
Atoms
Chemistry
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