Copper is a reddish

brown Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYK color model used in printing and painting, brown is usually made by combining the colors Orange (colour), orange and black. In the ...

color Color (or colour in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though co ...

that resembles the

metal A metal () is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electrical resistivity and conductivity, electricity and thermal conductivity, heat relatively well. These properties are all associated wit ...

copper Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...

. The first recorded use of ''copper'' as a color name in English was in 1594.

Variations of copper

Pale copper

At right is displayed pale tone of copper that is called ''copper'' in

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crayons. This color was formulated by Crayola in 1903.

Copper red

At right is displayed the color copper red. The first recorded use of ''copper red'' as a color name in English was in 1590.

Copper penny

At right is displayed the color copper penny. US penny 2003

''Copper penny'' is one of the colors in the special set of metallic

crayons called Silver Swirls, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 1990.

Copper rose

At right is displayed the color copper rose. The first recorded use of ''copper rose'' as a color name in English was in 1928.

Copper in nature

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The

Copper-colored Restrepia ''Restrepia cuprea'', the copper-colored restrepia, is a species of orchid endemic to Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular region ...

is an orchid native to Colombia. Snakes * Southern copperhead

Copperhead snakes (such as '' Trigonocephalus contortrix'') are so named for the coloration found between their eyes.

Copper in culture

Ethnography

Indigenous peoples of the Americas In the Americas, Indigenous peoples comprise the two continents' pre-Columbian inhabitants, as well as the ethnic groups that identify with them in the 15th century, as well as the ethnic groups that identify with the pre-Columbian population of ...

are sometimes described as being ''copper colored'' or ''copper-skinned''.See: ''Rand McNally's World Atlas International Edition'' Chicago:1944 Rand McNally Map: "Races of Mankind" Pages 278–279—In the explanatory section below the map, the '' American Indian Race'' is described as being "copper-colored"

Heraldry

* Copper (heraldry) – Copper has been used in heraldry as a metal

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since the late 20th Century, so far mostly in Canada.

Sports

* The Zambia national football team are nicknamed the ''Chipolopolo'', which translates to "Copper Bullets" and typically features the color in its uniforms.

References

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