The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Verdigris

A very poisonous diacetate of copper, which forms in a green crust on its surface if exposed to a damp atmosphere. It is useful in the arts as a pigment. See COPPER.

Vermilion, or mercuric sulphide, occurs native as cinnabar, a dull red mineral, which is the most important ore of mercury; bright red in color; has a good body, and is useful as a pigment for paints. See MERCURY.

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