Copper is element 29, a transition metal of the d block, in group 11, period 4. Its ground-state configuration is [Ar] 3d10 4s1, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 1, 2.
Copper has been known since antiquity, so no discovery is credited for it.
Name origin: English word (Latin cuprum).
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