| 单词 | red silver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred silver red silver n. †(a) Scottish (perhaps) silver alloyed with a large amount of copper (obsolete); (b) (now historical) = red silver ore n. ΚΠ 1586 Edinb. Test. XV. f. 57, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Rid Of redd syluer in auld stampit threttie s. pecis xij scoir. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia xxv. 309 Of pure Minium, or native Cinnober he had two sorts; one rubicund, like the crude Ore of red silver. 1742 tr. E. Odhelstierna in Acta Germanica I. 98 At Plana in Bohemia there was transmitted to us a pure pellucid ore like a carbuncle, and taken for rude red silver. 1807 A. Aikin & C. R. Aikin Dict. Chem. & Mineral. I. 93/2 The substances by which it [sc. realgar] is usually accompanied are native arsenic, red silver, and galena. 1836 T. Thomson Outl. Mineral. I. 650 Dark and light red silver were considered by Werner as two subspecies. 1936 Obituary Notices Fellows Royal Soc. 2 152 In mineralogy his first work in 1887 was with H. A. Miers..on the isomorphism of the red-silver minerals. < as lemmas |
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