COPPERby: Linus Wendland

INFORMATIONATOMIC NUMBER : 29

SYMBOL: CU ELEMENT KATEGORY: transition metal

ATOMIC WEIGHT: 63.546g PHASE: SOLID most of the time

MELTING POINT: 1084.62 °C

Copper is used by many things like cables or rings.

Copper was really cheap but now it's really expensive because we need copper in many ways.

In the past copper was used by everything like swords, pots or silver wear

Scientists discovered that copper is a good material to use with current because it has a good Conductivity.

Canadian Penny

Also money is made from copper like this Canadian penny or American penny too but now it's not only made of copper because copper is expensive.

Wussten Sie, dass die Außenverkleidung der Freiheitsstatue aus Kupfer besteht? Die des weltberühmten Eiffelturms ist auch aus

Kupfer! Did you know that the siding of the Statue of Liberty

is made of copper? The siding of the Eiffel tower as well!

Wussten Sie, dass die größte Kupferhütte in Hamburg (Deutschland)

steht und dort die Produktion Kupferdrähten etc. betrieben wird?

Did you know that the biggest copper smelter is in the European Union in Hamburg (Germany)? There, they're building copper wire.

Wussten Sie, dass die größte Kupferstatue nicht die Freiheitsstatue, sondern der Tain Tan Buddah in Hong

Kong (China) ist? Did you know that the biggest Copper statue, is not the

Statue of Liberty,but the Tian Tan Buddah (China)?

So copper is really important for us because without copper we would have no telephones or cables without this we can't make the world better.