aurum

How to use aurum in a sentence

• Another combination of tin, sulphur, and mercury, makes a light yellow substance called aurum musivum used in painting.

  Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry | Joseph Priestley

• Profectus3 Delphs4 cum Tarquini flis,5 qus pater ad Apollinem mneribus honrandum mserat, bacul5 sambce aurum inclsum dn6 tulit de.

  Selections from Viri Romae | Charles Franois L'Homond

• Mosaic gold, the aurum musivum of the old chemists, is a sulphuret of tin.

  A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure

• This grant was called the Patriarch's tax, and the mission-tax (Apostole), also crown money (aurum coronarium).

  History of the Jews, Vol. II (of 6) | Heinrich Graetz

• Sunt qui auro immodice utantur, quam aurum putent histori affere majestatem.

  The Decoration of Leather | Georges de Rcy