Lithium vs Copper - What's the difference?
lithium | copper |
(uncountable) The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3.
(pharmaceutical drug, uncountable) Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders.
A lithium battery.
(lb) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
(lb) Something made of copper.
The reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
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(lb) A copper coin.
*(Benjamin Franklin) (1706-1790)
*:My friends filled my pockets with coppers .
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*:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.."
A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney. Generally made redundant by the advent of the washing machine.
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*1797 , Dyeing'', article in Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig (editors), ''Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature , Volume 6, Part 1
*:When the water in the copper boils, the arsenic and tartar, well pounded, is put into it, and kept boiling till the liquor is reduced to about half.
Made of copper.
Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
* Coleridge
As a proper noun lithium
is a village in missouri.As a noun copper is
(lb) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol cu, and atomic number 29 or copper can be (slang|law enforcement) a police officer.As an adjective copper is
made of copper.As a verb copper is
to sheathe or coat with copper.lithium
English
(wikipedia lithium) (Lithium pharmacology)Noun
Derived terms
(terms derived from "lithium") * butyllithium * dilithium * * * lithium acetate * lithium aluminium hydride * lithium battery * lithium bromide * lithium carbonate * lithium chloride * lithium citrate * lithium deuteride * lithium diisopropylamide * lithium-drifted silicon detector * lithium economy * lithium fluoride * lithium hydride * lithium hydroxide * lithium iodide * lithium ion battery * lithium naphthalide * lithium niobate * lithium nitrate * lithium nitride * lithium orotate * lithium oxide * lithium oxybutyrate * lithium perchlorate * lithium soap * lithium stearate * lithium sulfate, lithium sulphate * lithium sulfide, lithium sulphide * lithium tantalate * lithium triborate * methyllithium * organolithium * paralithium * phenyllithium * trilithium * vinyllithium * yttrium lithium fluoridecopper
English
(wikipedia copper)Etymology 1
From (etyl) coper, from (etyl) coper, .Noun
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Synonyms
* (colour) chestnut, russetDerived terms
* antimonial copper * arsenical copper * barium copper oxide * black copper * black copper ore * blister copper, blistered copper * blanched copper * blue copper * Bungtown copper * Chessy copper * chromated copper arsenate * clear one's coppers * cool one's coppers * copper acetate * copper age * copper arsenate * copper-arsenide * copper-arsenite * copper-beech * copper-bellied snake * copper-belly * Copper Belt * copperbelt * copper belt * copper-bit * copper-blende * copper-bloom * copper-bottom * copper-bottomed * copper-bound * copper-butterfly * copper-cap * copper-captain * copper carbonate * copper chloride * copper-colic * copper-colored * copper-coloured * copper-cut * copper dichloride * coppered * copper-emerald * copperer * Copper Eskimo * copper-faced * copper-fasten * copper-fastened * copper-finch * copper-foil * copper-glance * copper-green * copperhead * copper-head * copper-headed * copper-hells * copper-hops * copper-Indian * coppering * copper-iron * copperise * copperize * copperish * copper-knob * copper loss * copper-man * copper-manganese * copper-mica * copper-nickel * copper nitrate * coppernob * copper-nose * copper ore * copper oxide * copper phosphide * copper-place * copperplate * copper-powder * copper pyrites * copper-rain * copper schist * copperskin * copper-skinned * copper-slate * coppersmith * copper-smoke * copper-snake * copper-spot * copper sulfate * copper sulphate * copper sulfide * copper sulphide * copper-top * copper-topped * copper uranite * copper-vitriol * copperware * copper-wing * copper-work * copper-works * coppery * copper-zinc * disulfide of copper * disulphide of copper * dry copper * emerald copper * emerald copper ore * enamelers' copper * enamellers' copper * gold-copper ore * grey copper * grey copper ore * hot coppers * indigo copper * japan copper * large copper * manganese copper * octahedral copper * octahedral copper ore * phosphor copper * purple copper * purple copper ore * pyritous copper * red copper * scarce copper * silver-copper nitrate * sulfate of copper * sulphate of copper * variegated copper * variegated copper ore * velvet copper * velvet copper ore * white copper * yellow copper * yellow copper oreAdjective
(en adjective)- All in a hot and copper sky,
- The bloody Sun, at noon,
- Right up above the mast did stand,
- No bigger than the Moon.