In a long-ago episode of The Simpsons, a class of children was asked by the teacher to imagine a world without zinc. Assorted objects from bathtubs to batteries simply disappeared.
Imagining a world without copper is harder still. No Bronze Age, for a start, with bronze being an alloy of copper and tin. No telegraph or telephone lines. No birth-control “coil”. No modern electrics in cars and vans.
Oh, and no Statue of Liberty in New York, or at least not as we know it today. The structure is coated in copper, which explains its green tinge – copper oxidises when exposed to air and water.
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