Chrysocolla (gold-solder)

This article is about the historical term. For the hydrosilicate mineral, see Chrysocolla (mineralogy).

Chrysocolla (gold-solder, Greek χρῡσόκολλα;[1] Latin chrȳsocolla,[2] oerugo, santerna; Syriac "tankar" (Bar Bahlul), alchemical symbol 🜸), also known as "goldsmith's solder"[3] and "solder of Macedonia" (Pseudo-Democritus),[4] denotes:

  • The soldering of gold.[3]
  • The materials used for soldering gold and certain gold alloys still used by goldsmiths.[3]
  • A mix of copper and iron salts produced by the dissolution of a metallic vein by water.[3]
  • Malachite (green carbonate of copper), and other alkaline copper salts of green colour.[5]
  • Greenish copper salts obtained by boiling infant's urine and natron in copper vessels.[3]
  • A particular copper hydrosilicate is named chrysocolla by modern mineralogists.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Henry Liddell; Robert Scott, eds. (1897), "χρῡσόκολλα", Greek-English Lexicon (8th ed.), Harper & Brothers, p. 1745b
  2. ^ "chrȳsocolla", Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1968, p. 312
  3. ^ a b c d e f Marcellin Berthelot (1889), Introduction à l'étude de la chimie des anciens et du moyen âge, Steinheil, pp. 36, 46–47, 104, 232, 243–244
  4. ^ Marcellin Berthelot (1893), La chimie au moyen âge, vol. 1, Imprimerie nationale, p. 35
  5. ^ Edmund Lippmann (1919), Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Alchemie, Springer, p. 524
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