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Cu
Copper
- Z
- 29
- Mass
- 63.546
- Lifeforce
- Earth
- In the body
- brain, liver
The first metal a human hand ever shaped is still inside you: about 72 milligrams, spread across liver, brain and hair. And when it ages, it turns green — like the Statue of Liberty.
Copper. Element twenty-nine. The first metal humans ever shaped. Conducts electricity better than almost anything. Turns green when it ages — like old statues, like the Statue of Liberty.
Lab note · Atomic number 29; ≈72 mg in the human body — liver, brain, hair.