Meaning of batir el cobre

batir el cobre: It is literally beating ("hitting, hammering repeatedly") the copper metal to shape it, but as it is a task that requires physical effort, it is said in a broad sense by "working hard for something, putting a great effort", also "making a lot of noise".; "Beating the copper", in nautical terminology, refers to the continuous work of beating the copper plates that the ships carried to cover the dead work of the same, adapting to their forms, both in pantouch, elbow and in the lining, used mainly in the ships during the seventeenth centuries and later until the steel ships began, Copper lining that avoided major damage in combat, avoiding waterways, in addition to avoiding the joke that deteriorates the lining strips. Due to the hard of this work, when you have to perform an important or heavy work, this work, it is said, that it is time to "beat the copper".; Stand out, excel; Copper was the first metal that humans knew. They checked, after a lightning strike, a stone or ore, it had been melted, causing a kind of " nugget or consolidated ". Amazed by the miracle they used it at first as beading. The woman who had given it, as proof of love and after being abandoned by one of their own, tribe; full of rage and pain, he started hitting the beading, with a stone and much anger. This was the first "Mixer copper " history. After checking the deformation of the metal because of its ductility, the Chief of the clan was mulling over the head for several days. He came to the conclusion, that the metal to put it in the fire, ( as did the lightning ) It could be merged and that beating him with rabies, could be given form. Thus began: mechanical engineering, metallurgy, jewelry, entrepreneurship and trade. Since he became the first " currency, after the salt. all these industries and workers, making more sacrifice were beaters, of copper; then spent the day banging for laminating and give form to the metal. Pedro Sanchez.