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Colcothar

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(adapted in Romanic languages from Arabic golgotar, which was probably a corruption of the Gr. x ucaveos, from xaXxbs, copper, iiveos, flower, i.e. copper sulphate), a name given to the brownish-red ferric oxide formed in the preparation of fuming sulphuric (Nordhausen) acid by distilling ferrous sulphate. It is used as a polishing powder, forming the rouge of jewellers, and as the pigment Indian red. It is also known as Crocus Martis.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Colcothar'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/colcothar.html. 1910.
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