verdigrise

The greatest perfection in the art of colours would be to find the means of preparing the finest colours without the use either of acid or alkaline salts, which usually subject the coloursto change, or else are apt to prey upon the cloth, canvas, &c. as we see in verdigrise, the blue and green crystals of copper, &c.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

It is easy to conceive how hurtful must be the presence of verdigrise to those who make use of whiskey as a constant drink: even those who use it soberly, swallow a slow poison, destructive of their stomach; while to those who abuse it, it produces a rapid death, which would still be the consequence of abuse, if the liquor was pure, but is doubly accelerated by the poison contained in the whiskey.

The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain Anthony Boucherie

The stills are generally made of naked copper; the acid works upon that metal, and forms with it the _acetate of copper_, or verdigrise, part of which passes with the whiskey.

The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain Anthony Boucherie

On the breast lay what had been a piece of copper, in the form of a cross, which had now become verdigrise.

An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians 1884

Its principal commerce is wine; it furnishes great quantities of grape-pumice for making _verdigrise_.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

"It is almost needless," continued he, "to point out the formation of verdigrise, white lead, and a quantity of other operations, in which acetous acid is employed.

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

Champagne, &c.; the threads of Lyons, in high repute; excellent verdigrise from Montpelier, merceries, &c. "

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson William Stevenson 1784