COPPER INFORMATION

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The El Chino open-pit copper mine in New Mexico.
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Native copper

Copper Benefits

Copper is a reddish-coloured metal, with a high electrical and thermal conductivity (among pure metals at room temperature, only silver has a higher electrical conductivity). In oxidation is mildly basic. Copper has its characteristic colour because it reflects red and orange light and absorbs other frequencies in the visible spectrum, due to its band structure. Contrast this with the optical properties of silver, gold and aluminium.

Copper occupies the same family of the periodic table as silver and gold, hence it shares many characteristics with these metals. All have very high thermal and electrical conductivity. All are malleable metals.

Physical Properties

Solid

Phase

8.96 g/cm³

Density (near r.t.)

8.02 g/cm³

Liquid density at m.p.

1357.77 K

Melting point

2835 K

Boiling point

13.26 kJ/mol

Heat of fusion

300.4 kJ/mol

Heat of vaporization

25 °C

Heat capacity

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