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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The gases which escape from the hearth of a reverberatory furnace in which copper ores are roasted.
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Hundreds of chimneys -- we speak literally -- are vomiting forth that white, peculiar-looking, and unmistakable vapour called copper-smoke.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 Various 1841
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