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Electricity enters our homes and offices and cinderblock warehouses on copper wires, much as does HBO, but electricity generally keeps its blouse on even after 11 o'clock at night (as did Sally Gilbert, at least to my adolescent knowledge).
Most of the elements discovered in the first exuberant wave of Enlightenment chemistry bear abbreviations close to their actual names: Ni for nickel, first identified in 1751 (an abbreviation of German Kupfernickel , copper-demon, so called because miners first noticed it as a stubborn adulterant of copper ore), Al for aluminum—spelled alumin i um in the British Commonwealth nations (named in 1825 from Latin alumen , astringent substance), Co for cobalt (isolated in 1735; the name is a variant of German Kobold , a kind of imp).
According to an article published in November in the British magazine New Scientist , Tapio Eeva and his colleagues report that because pollutants from a copper smelter in the town of Harjavalta dull the plumage of local great tits, they are unable to perform a courtship dance that relies on the display of bright feathers.
Death Valley was an irresistible magnet for prospectors, who once scoured the hills and canyons for signs of copper, lead, gold, and silver.
The copper phthalocyanine sulfonate only had an EC 50 of approximately 50 μg/mL in the WR assay in both cell lines.