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verdigris

Green-blue coating of copper ethanoate that forms naturally on copper, bronze, and brass. It is an irritating, poisonous compound made by treating copper with ethanoic acid, and was formerly used in wood preservatives, antifouling compositions, and green paints.



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The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris.
The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context
With the point of his cutlass Snider scraped the dirt and verdigris from the face of the larger ornament.
The Lost Continent by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Clips and empty cartridges, tarnished with verdigris, lay on the ground, which, while wet, had been torn up by the hoofs of horses.
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