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chrysocolla|krɪsəʊˈkɒlə|
[see prec.]
†1. A name meaning ‘gold-solder’, anciently given to some mineral or minerals; it may have included borax, to which the name was in later times applied; also malachite or carbonate of copper. Obs. exc. Hist.
1600Holland Livy iv. xi. 1377 note, Heliogabalus..garnished them with gold, and paved the very floore with Chrysocolla. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd. 81 Some [stones] move vomiting, as chrysocolla. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 64 Chrysocolla, Borax. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 9 Mixing Crisocolla or Terraverd with the Sand. 1768Buys Dict. Terms Art, Chrysocolla, Gold-solder, a Mineral somewhat like Pumice stones, found in Copper-mines. 1861C. King Ant. Gems (1866) 15 It may be that our Malachite was the Chrysocolla of the Romans, a name given to native verdigris from its use as a solder for gold work.
2. In mod. Min. The name of a hydrous silicate of copper, green in colour, with a shining lustre, and often opal-like in texture.
Dana thinks that the chrysocolla of the ancients may have included this mineral.
1794Kirwan Min. II. 134 Mountain Green. Chrysocolla. 1872R. B. Smyth Mining Statist. 95 Impure clayey chrysocolla [silicate of copper] was found in..Bloomfield's Gully, Omeo. 1884Dana Min. 404 Some specimens of chrysocolla are translucent. |