Yellow copper is a colloquial name for various minerals and alloys with high copper content:
- Chiefly, chalcopyrite.
- Less frequently, brass.
Famous quotes containing the words yellow and/or copper:
“The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.”
—Li Po (701–762)
“He had put, within his reach,
A box of counters and a red-veined stone,
A piece of glass abraded by the beach,
And six or seven shells,
A bottle with bluebells,
And two French copper coins, ranged there with careful art,”
—Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)