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Ore :: Ore (n.) The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers)..

Mezzotint :: Mezzotint (n.) A manner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced..

Copperplate :: Copperplate (n.) A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.

Galvanograph :: Galvanograph (n.) A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate..

Mill :: Mill (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper..

Tough-pitch :: Tough-pitch (n.) Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.

Chalcography :: Chalcography (n.) The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing..

Capel :: Capel (n.) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes..

Copper :: Copper (n.) A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper..

Copperhead :: Copperhead (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.

Braze :: Braze (v. i.) To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe..

Eliquation :: Eliquation (n.) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation..

Libethenite :: Libethenite (n.) A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper..

Tyrolite :: Tyrolite (n.) A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.

Verdigris :: Verdigris (n.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates..

Condurrite :: Condurrite (n.) A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England..

Caledonite :: Caledonite (n.) A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland..

Eucairite :: Eucairite (n.) A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium..

Verdigris :: Verdigris (n.) The green rust formed on copper.

Cyanosite :: Cyanosite (n.) Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue..

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