Aurum
gold. Symbol: Au.
Historical Examples
The acid of vitriol being poured on aurum fulminans likewise deprives it of its fulminating quality.
Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. Pierre Joseph Macquer
It was collected every four years, whence the aurum lustrale.
A Manual of Ancient History A. H. L. (Arnold Hermann Ludwig) Heeren
The basis of these is said to be aurum musivum, or bisulphide of tin.
Cooley’s Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades…, Sixth Edition, Volume I Arnold Cooley
By stirring gold-coloured mica spangles or talc, or aurum musivum, into the melted resins just before they begin to cool.
Cooley’s Practical Receipts, Volume II Arnold Cooley
Nothing can be more unlike than gold, χρυσος, and aurum; than silver and argentum; than ferrum and σιδηρος.
The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland Daniel Wilson
You would have a peep at my aurum potabiles in dat little casket—my multum in parvo?
Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) John P. Kennedy
Neve aurum addito, ast quoi auro dentes vincti erunt, im cum illo sepelire et utere, se fraude esto.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Thomas Browne
Mel was an experienced jetmariner who had gone on the Swift expedition to aurum City, the underwater ruins of a lost civilization.
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung Victor Appleton
The basis of this preparation is the aurum musivum, or bisulphuret of tin.
Cooley’s Practical Receipts, Volume II Arnold Cooley
He calls it aurum volatile, and speaks of its being useful in medicine.
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume I (of 2) Johann Beckman
noun
(obsolete) gold
aurum au·rum (ôr’əm)
n.
Gold.
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