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  2. Verdigris - Wikipedia

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    [5]: 132 Once used as a medicine [6] [7] and pharmaceutical preparation, [8]: 176 [9] verdigris occurs naturally, creating a patina on copper, bronze, and brass, and is the main component of a historic green pigment used for artistic purposes from antiquity until the late 20th century, including in easel painting, polychromatic sculptures, and ...

  3. Chemical coloring of metals - Wikipedia

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    Brown or black can be used as a base color for copper patina. If the amount of chlorides decreases the color will be more bluish-green, if carbonate decreases, more yellow-green. [27] Black for copper. Solution of sodium polysulfide 2.5%, items must be submerged in the solution after color developing, wash, dry and wax or varnish colored object ...

  4. Patina - Wikipedia

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    Copper roof on the Minneapolis City Hall, coated with patina The Dresden Frauenkirche.The church was destroyed during the bombing of Dresden in 1945 and then rebuilt from 1993 to 2005 with new material; the stones with the black patina are the parts that survived the firebombing from the original 18th-century church.

  5. Mokume-gane - Wikipedia

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    One example of a traditional Japanese patination for mokume-gane is the use of the niiro process, usually involving rokushō, a complex copper verdigris compound produced specifically for use as a patina. The piece to be patinated is prepared, then immersed in a boiling solution until it reaches the desired color, and each element of a compound ...

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Tammany ...

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    Location of St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.

  7. Mardi Paws - Wikipedia

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    The parade was born in Mandeville, but was moved to Downtown Covington in 2020. [3] [4] [5] The parade is held during the typical Mardi Gras season. [6] Although Bacchus was the first Mardi Gras krewe to have a celebrity appear as its monarch, Mardi Paws is the first dog parade to have a celebrity appear as its monarch.

  8. Copper in architecture - Wikipedia

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    The copper patinas are very thin: just 0.05080–0.07620 mm (0.002000–0.003000 in) in thickness. Yet, they are highly adherent to the underlying copper metal. The initial and intermediate oxide and sulfide patina films are not particularly corrosion resistant.

  9. Conservation and restoration of copper-based objects

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    In North America, copper mining began with marginal workings by Native Americans. Native copper is known to have been extracted from sites on Isle Royale with primitive stone tools between 800 and 1600. [12] Copper metallurgy was flourishing in South America, particularly in Peru around 1000 AD; it proceeded at a much slower rate on other ...