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Re: which set?
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lugnet.fun
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Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:44:31 GMT
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In lugnet.fun, Erik Olson writes:
> Wow, I didn't know that verdigris was the word for it. I thought verdigris was
> the pearly grey stuff that came out of whales. See Moby Dick, where Herman
> Melville writes pages about it and what people will do to get it and what it
> feels like and what good is it and on and on...
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> Anyway: verdigris, Middle English vertegrez, from Old French vert de Grice, • lit.
> "green of Greece": 1. a : a green or greenish blue poisonous pigment resulting
> from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic
> copper acetates b: normal copper acetate Cu(C2H3O2)2H2O. 2. a green or bluish
> deposit esp. of copper carbonate formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces.
I would have called it a "copper Patenia" colour (not sure on the
spelling)...but that is what I was brought up with the copper roofs being
called.
James
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| (...) The patina is the greenish-bluish-cyanish film that forms; verdigris is the color. (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.fun)
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| Wow, I didn't know that verdigris was the word for it. I thought verdigris was the pearly grey stuff that came out of whales. See Moby Dick, where Herman Melville writes pages about it and what people will do to get it and what it feels like and (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.fun)
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