Really Shitty Copper

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A community dedicated to making fun of Ea-Nasir, a Sumerian merchant circa 1750 BC, who sold exceptionally poor quality copper.

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PC cooling manufacturer Der8auer got scammed by a copper supplier (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 25 points 1 day ago

Basically always has been since the industrial revolution, it's also the reason why it gets recycled at much higher rates/more effort goes into gathering for recycling than steel (or rather how restricted the supply of new ore is compared to iron).

(Why we don't recycle both & design products with that in mind is another matter.)