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Re: which set?
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lugnet.fun
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Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:57:46 GMT
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In lugnet.fun, Erik Olson writes:
> 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.
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> In lugnet.fun, Andy Lynch writes:
> > Actually, word is that the bricks are NOT gray, they are a new color that
> > approximates verdigris ( the color that copper weathers to, something like a
> > greenish gray).
I wonder how close the green will actually end up being to weathered copper?
If we have to give it a name now, perhaps calling the new LEGO colour "Liberty
Green" after the first set it will appear in would be best.
--
David Schilling
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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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