verditer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of verditer
1495–1505; < Middle French verd de terre ( French vert de terre ) green of earth
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Copper carbonate is also the basis of the valuable blue to green pigments verditer, Bremen blue and Bremen green.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
Another method is by first painting the article, after it has been rendered nonabsorbent, of a dark color made of Prussian blue, yellow ochre, and verditer, ground in oil.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
Blue.—The ancient blues were very numerous; the principal of these was cœruleum, azure, a species of verditer, or blue carbonate of copper, of which there were many varieties.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
Ground smalts, blue verditer, and other pigments, have passed under the name of bice.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
Verditer, ver′di-tėr, n. a light-blue pigment, essentially a hydrated cupric carbonate—Green verditer is the blue pigment changed to green by boiling.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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