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copperas

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Definitions

  1. Iron(II) sulfate.

Word origin

From Middle English coperas, coperose (“metallic sulfate”), from Old French coperose. Compare French couperose (“sulfate”), Medieval Latin cuprosa, Late Latin aqua cuprosa, Latin cupri rosa, "rose of copper".

Used in a sentence

  • It were superfluous to describe the Process of making the Aqua fortis; it shall suffice to let you know, that our common Coperas makes this Aquafortis well enough for our purpose[…]
  • […] what a change has introduced itself everywhere into human affairs! How human affairs shall now circulate everywhere not healthy life-blood in them, but, as it were, a detestable copperas banker’s ink;

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