Word: copper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party will make their headquarters at Gerro de Pasco, Peru, situated in the Andes at a height of over 14,000 feet, where there is one of the largest copper mines in the world. The town is one of the loftiest places on the globe where any considerable number of people live...
...object of the expedition will be to study the changes in the heart, circulation, respiration, and chemical composition of the blood which enable the residents of Cerro de Pasco to live there in comfort and to arduous work in the copper-mines, at an altitude in which most people would be able to do comparatively little on account of the rarity of the air. Scientists have frequently spent a few days or weeks at great heights to test the effect of the altitude on themselves, but the studies made on the natives of Cerro de Pasco will be the first...
...relative weights in which these elements combine with each other to form the countless substances of which the universe is constructed. These weights have usually been found to be amazingly constant. Silver from all parts of the world and from many different ores has always the same atomic weight Copper from Europe is identical in this respect with that mined under the bottom of Lake Superior...
...Tunell 3E.S., president of the Geological Club, will address the members at a meeting this evening at 8 P. M. in Foxcroft Hall, on the "Jerome Copper District of Arizona". The mines of this district are among the richest producing mines in the world. All members of the University are invited...
Speaking of the relations between Belgium and Germany, he said. "There will not be friendship, but they will resume trade. Germany will be considered on merely business relations; there can be no sympathy for centuries. They literally exhausted the country. They wanted the copper, they wanted the wool, they wanted the cotton, they wanted everything." They were allowed to want, at the University of Louvain at least, for all the copper, including Professor De Wulf's six elaborate chandeliers, was collected in one of the college buildings. When the German officer demanded it, the president of the university replied...