Chrysocolla (gold-solder)

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

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

See also

• Chrysoberyl
• Chrysolite
• Chrysoprase
• Chrysotile
• Sarcocolla

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