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| My vote's for Verdigris, even though this color's used in non-copper sets :) It's kind of mossy looking, not swampy, but mossy.. I love it :) (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| I, for one, can't go along with that at all. We should attempt to be consistant with whatever TLG ends up on calling it for the general public. Not that we may know that yet, but we certainly can influence it. Case in point - Note the Beige group (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I agree with that completely. (...) Really? I think that'd be most cool, as it's the closest thing to the proper word for the color of rusted copper. "Verdigris Green" seems to be more proper, but you know kids... (...) Hmm. When I think of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) It is called "verdigris green" on Brickbay.com . /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Isn't that sort of redundant redundant, like saying Turquoise Blue or Lemon Yellow? 8^) Dave! (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Yes, it is redundant. But the redundancy is useful because fewer people know what "verdigris" means than "turquoise" or "lemon". /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I won't be calling it "new green" unless i need to explain it to someone who doesn't have a dictionary handy to look up verdigris :) I'm not saying verdigris is the best name, just that it's the best temporary choice. (...) Verdigris green is (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) c/rusted/oxidized/ Many metals oxidize but only metals that are mostly the element iron "rust". ++Lar (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Actually that is not correct. Although "rust" most commonly refers to the hydrated ferric oxide coating found on iron, it more correctly refers to the coating produced by corrosion on any metal. The verb form of "rust" refers in general to the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| anyone else see the irony (pun intended) of someone called Shiner setting us all straing about rust?? 8?) ROSCO FUT: lugnet.off-topic.pun (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Not exactly. It seems that some by definitions, verdigris is a patina -- it's the substance that forms on the surface of oxidized copper, not the color itself. See the entries at (URL). Close to the end, there's a link to "verdigris green", (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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