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Webster 1913 Edition
Verditer
Ver′di-ter
,Noun.
[F.
vert-de-terre
, literally, green of earth.] (Chem.)
(a)
Verdigris.
[Obs.]
(b)
Either one of two pigments (called
blue verditer
, and green verditer
) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite. Verditer blue
, a pale greenish blue color, like that of the pigment verditer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Verditer
VER'DITER
,Noun.
A preparation of copper sometimes used by painters, &c. for a blue, but more generally mixed with a yellow for a green color. It is a factitious substance of blue pigment, obtained by adding chalk or whiting to a solution of copper in nitric acid or aqua fortis.