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verdigris
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synonyms: cupric acetate ???
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Definition:1. (Chem.) Defn: A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates.2. The green rust formed on copper. [Colloq.]Note: This rust is a carbonate of copper, and should not be confounded with true verdigris. U. S. Disp. Blue verdigris (Chem.), a verdigris having a blue color, used a pigment, etc. -- Distilled verdigris (Old Chem.), an acid copper acetate; -- so called because the acetic acid used in making it was obtained from distilled vinegar. -- Verdigris green, clear bluish green, the color of verdigris.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris. It chanced that the face was towards me; the sightless eyes seemed to watch me; there was the faint shadow of a smile on the lips.
H. G. Wells. The Time Machine
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He at once took a pin from his lapel and was going to prick his flesh, but Tom said:
“Hold on! Don’t do that. A pin’s brass. It might have verdigrease on it.”
“What’s verdigrease?”
“It’s p’ison. That’s what it is. You just swaller some of it once—you’ll see.”
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.530, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/530/mode/1up
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I distinguished a trace of verdigris, a tiny bit of crushed shell and a fleshiness difficult to define because it was slighter than a mistletoe-berry and less transparent than a glass bead.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 7]
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