Mosaic gold Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a yellow pigment sometimes suspended in lacquer
    stannic sulfide.

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Definitions
  1. . (a) See Ormolu. (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It was called by the alchemists aurum musivum, or aurum mosaicum. Called also bronze powder.
Definitions
  1. . See under Mosaic.

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