Imitative gold

Schein-farbe, /. accidental color, -fuss, m, pseudopodium, -gold, n. imitation gold, -gnmd, m. apparent reason, pretext, fallacy, -leistung,/. apparent output, -mine,/. (Mil.) dummy mine. 

Uses Solvent for celluloid, cellulose acetate, fats, oils, waxes, nitrocellulose and resins wood preservatives rayon and artificial leather imitation gold leaf extraction of resins and waxes in antifreeze mixtures and hydraulic fluids laboratory reagent preservative for animal tissue dyeing mixtures stripping agent for textiles. 

The practical recipes of the pseudo-Democritus differ only from the Theban papyri in their less simple and plain directions. They are the same in their intentions of imitating gold and silver by yellow and white alloys of copper, lead, tin, mercury and arsenic by colored mixtures or varnishes or stains to be superficially applied to give a surface resemblance to gold or silver and the materials... 

Dutch metal An alloy of copper and zinc, which can be produced in very thin sheets and used as imitation gold leaf) It spontaneously inflames in chlorine. 

Imitation gold ink n. A simulated gold ink that uses aluminum powder to produce the metallic luster. 

Egyptian craftsmen were also proficient at producing imitation gold and in giving articles a golden surface. Such techniques are somewhat similar in their effects to our modem practice of electroplating. In neither case is there necessarily any attempt to deceive. 

Igneous panicles, 114, 140 Imitative gold 16, 90 Immunisation, 187 India, 9... 

Merrifield (1849) notes iitat Awipetrum is a lacquer made using gall, saffron qq.v.) or similar materials used over tin to make imitation gold. 

Powdered gold has been used as a pigment ( shell gold ). Milled silver was used in illuminated manuscripts and used to imitate gold with the addition of a dye such as saffron (Thompson, 1956). 

In addition to the widespread use of silver leaf, milled silver had an important place in the illumination of manuscripts. Thompson (1956) states that powdered silver was used to imitate gold by admixing a golden colour such as saffron or by painting over it with a yellow glaze that was often derived from aloes. 

Both metallic tin and tin compounds have been used as pigments. Tin has been used in the manufacture of bronze colours and mosaic silver qq.v.), while powdered tin has been used to imitate gold with the aid of a yellow lacquer applied over the surface (for example, Thompson, 1956). The following tin compounds are also known in a pigment context ... 

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