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Definition of aurum mosaicum

aurum mosaicum
Mosaic Mo*sa"ic, a. Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. A very beautiful mosaic pavement. --Addison. Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine. Mosaic gold. (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. Mosaic work. See Mosaic, n.
Aurum mosaicum
Aurum Au"rum, n. [L.] Gold. Aurum fulminans (?). See Fulminate. Aurum mosaicum (?). See Mosaic.

Meaning of aurum mosaicum from wikipedia

- scaly crystalline powder. The alchemists referred to it as aurum musivum, or aurum mosai****. The term mosaic gold has also been used to refer to ormolu...
- Health (NIOSH). Peter Woulfe (1771) "Experiments to shew the nature of aurum mosai****," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 61: 114–130...