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Copper has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 2, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
September 23, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted
April 14, 2011	Peer review	Reviewed
May 1, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
Current status: Good article

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Section sizes

Section size for Copper (49 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,173	3,173
Etymology	505	505
Characteristics	21	11,333
Physical	4,203	4,203
Chemical	1,917	1,917
Isotopes	2,191	2,191
Occurrence	3,001	3,001
Production	2,656	13,776
Reserves and prices	2,495	2,495
Methods	4,010	4,010
Recycling	2,055	2,055
Environmental impacts	2,560	2,560
Alloys	4,413	4,413
Compounds	786	13,964
Binary compounds	1,356	1,356
Coordination chemistry	4,942	4,942
Organocopper chemistry	3,512	3,512
Copper(III) and copper(IV)	3,368	3,368
History	248	26,247
Prehistoric	18	12,520
Copper Age	9,161	9,161
Bronze Age	3,341	3,341
Ancient and post-classical	7,991	7,991
Modern	5,488	5,488
Applications	1,553	28,115
Wire and cable	2,783	2,783
Electronics and related devices	905	905
Electric motors	2,068	2,068
Renewable energy production	76	76
Architecture	5,740	5,740
Antibiofouling	1,374	1,374
Antimicrobial	6,000	6,000
Copper demand	2,460	5,200
Speculative investing	2,740	2,740
Folk medicine	2,416	2,416
Degradation	1,239	1,239
Biological role	305	18,785
Biochemistry	5,006	5,006
Nutrition	620	7,027
Absorption	2,295	2,295
Dietary recommendations	4,112	4,112
Deficiency	1,180	1,180
Toxicity	3,261	3,261
Human exposure	2,006	2,006
See also	372	372
References	28	28
Notes	636	636
Further reading	1,158	1,158
External links	1,324	1,324
Total	125,068	125,068

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