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Azurite

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A named deep-blue copper carbonate of pigment and later ornamental stone. Not lapis lazuli, and not generic copper.

  • Azurite is used in Dye.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats blue copper carbonates among painters’ blues neighboring chrysocolla speech. A Roman-era pigment use of the deep blue carbonate, not ultramarine and not egyptian-blue frit.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Azurite is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats Armenian and copper blues among mineral preparations that enter remedies as well as colorants. A Roman-era pharmacological use of azurite, not the dye/colorant seat already published and not lapis as the rock-blue already walked in dye.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

Roman religion

  • Azurite appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats azurite among blue copper carbonates of Roman pigment and ornamental-stone speech beyond pharmacy/dye alone. A named azurite craft encyclopedia seat, not azurite medicine/dye already walked and not lapis lazuli as the tectosilicate blue alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Alchemy

  • Mountain blue is historically related to Azurite.

    Merrifield’s Bolognese natural-azure book seats mountain / German / Spanish azures continuous with azzurro della magna — mountain-blue speech for natural copper carbonate blue. A named mountain-blue historically related to azurite, not ultramarine as lapis blue and not verditer as precipitated copper.

    from Mary Philadelphia Merrifield · Original Treatises on the Arts of Painting, 1849

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