golden marcasite

English

Noun

golden marcasite (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Zinc, due to colouring copper golden in admixture.
    • 1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England. […] Part I. Of the Fossils that are real and natural: Earths, Stone, Marble, Talcs, Coralloids, Spars, Crystals, Gemms, Bitumens, Salts, Marcasites, Minerals, and Metals. Tome I, London, page 196:
      Another Sample from the same Mine, of a dusky reddish Colour, with an intermixture of Spar, and a brassy, or as it is call’d, the Golden Marcasite. Some Parts of this Body shine very finely, and are of a beautiful Colour, betwixt a Purple and Blue
    • 1740, George Martine, Essays medical and philosophical, London, page 364:
      What still vastly increases the fusibleness of these Metals is the addition of Bismuth or Tin-glass, a Marcafite or Sulphureo-metallic substance, not so easily melted as Tin. That Bismuth Sir Isaac Newton used in these curious experiments, we shall just now have occasion to copy from him, did not melt with a heat under gr. 460 b. And Dr. Musschenbroek’s Bismuth was much harder to dissolve, to wit at gr. 1051 c. And a golden Marcasite, though more fluxil, took gr. 506 to melt it.

References

  • Polehampton, Edward (1815), The Gallery of Nature and Art, Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science. […] Vol. VI. […] Part II. Art, London, page 254
  • Thurston, Robert H. (1885), A Text-book of the Materials of Construction, for Use in Technical and Engineering Schools. Abridged from “Materials of Engineering.”, New York: John Wiley & Sons, page 301
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