Copper, Badges, and the Periodic Table of DEATH and Mystery
One of the periodic table elements should be “rabbit hole” because I always seem to go down one when I’m doing research. This article is particularly weird because I’m going to lead you through the workings of my mind for Copper (Cu) from the Latin cuprum, atomic number 29 and one of only a few metals that occur on earth in a usable metallic form (1). There’s a line in Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols (1974) that I decided to use as the base for this essay on copper: “What are pennies made out of?…Dirty copper!” which is directed at Kyril Montana, an undercover …