a symbol associated with copper that was used in Egypt. It stood for life or eternity. In ancient Greece it was assigned to the god Aphrodite and in the Roman culture it was Venus. The sign of Venus was the same as the symbol for copper - it shows a mirror, perhaps made of shiny copper. Copper's latin name Cuprum originates from 'aes cyprium', the ore from cyprus where copper was mined in ancient times. With the development of the periodic table copper got the chemical Symbol "Cu".
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