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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLCOTHAR (adapted in Romanic
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languages from Arabic golgotar, which was probably a corruption of the Gr. xaXicavOos, from xnX, bs, copper, avOos, flower, i.e. copper sulphate)
  , a name given to the brownish-red ferric
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oxide formed in the preparation of fuming sulphuric (
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Nordhausen) acid by distilling ferrous sulphate . It is used as a polishing powder, forming the rouge of jewellers, and as the pigment
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Indian red . It is also known as
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Crocus Martis .

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