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COLCOTHAR (adapted in Romanic See also:languages from Arabic golgotar, which was probably a corruption of the Gr. xaXicavOos, from xnX, bs, See also:copper, avOos, See also:flower, i.e. copper sulphate) , a name given to the brownish-red ferric See also:oxide formed in the preparation of fuming sulphuric (See also:Nordhausen) See also:acid by distilling ferrous sulphate. It is used as a polishing See also:powder, forming the See also:rouge of jewellers, and as the pigment See also:Indian red. It is also known as See also:Crocus Martis.

End of Article: COLCOTHAR (adapted in Romanic languages from Arabic golgotar, which was probably a corruption of the Gr. xaXicavOos, from xnX, bs, copper, avOos, flower, i.e. copper sulphate)

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