音标:['kɒpәrәs] ;
n. 绿矾
[化] 绿矾; 水绿矾; 皂矾(天然结晶硫酸亚铁)
n. Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline
substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black,
as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the
oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.

South Africa's recycling industry processes more than a million tons of scrap metal every year. This has created an opportunity for thieves. They are stealing copper wiring from city streets and selling it at local scrap yards. The city of Cape Town

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十二月)

High Prices Trigger Rise in Copper Thefts When you heard the word copper in old gangster movies, you were talking about the good guys: the police, the cops. Now, when you speak of copper and crime, youre referring to the bad guys. A combination of ci

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The Streaming down the Yangtze team has arrived in the city of Tongling, Anhui Province. Owing to its copper deposits, it was an important center in ancient China for bronze production. The scale of the copper industry has gradually increased and it

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Varden paused, and put away a good mouthful of whisky. Well? cried several breathless voices. Well, said Varden, Im not ashamed to say I went out of that house like an old buck-rabbit that hears the man with the gun. There was a car standing just out

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For the last two years, the Los Angeles area has seen an increasing number of metal thefts, reported Paul Moyer, co-anchor of the local 6 oclock news. Sometime before dawn Wednesday, thieves had stolen the copper wire out of six lamp posts. A day ear

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Unionized workers at Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, have begun a 24-hour strike in a dispute with the government over the future of the company. The workers walked off the job Monday over modernization(现代化) plans that

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