Chrysocolla

• Chrysocolla is used in Medicine.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats chrysocolla among green copper minerals compounded in eye-salves and related plasters. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the copper silicate green, not malachite dust alone and not verdigris already walked.

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

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• Chrysocolla is used in Dye.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats chrysocolla among greens used in painting as well as in eye-salves. A Roman-era pigment use of chrysocolla, not the medicine seat already published and not malachite as the banded carbonate.

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

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• Chrysocolla is historically related to Copper.

  In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, moisture standing upon copper corrodes it and yields the juice from which chrysocolla originates — chrysocolla forms from that copper.

  from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912

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• Gold is historically related to Chrysocolla.

  In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, solidified juices including chrysocolla frequently contain gold, especially in dry earth that looks melted in a furnace — gold is indicated with that chrysocolla.

  from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912

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Roman religion

• Chrysocolla appears in Roman religion.

  Pliny’s Natural History seats chrysocolla among copper silicate greens of Roman pigment and soldering-craft neighborhoods beyond pharmacy/dye alone. A named chrysocolla craft encyclopedia seat, not chrysocolla medicine/dye already walked and not malachite as the carbonate alone.

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

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