auric

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Such gnomic utterances, and the auric mysteries of the international monetary system, suddenly make the money game more fun to read about than play.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aur′ated, gold-coloured: compounded with auric acid; Aur′eate, gilded: golden.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

When the perforations are of comparatively large size, the repairing is not so easy, owing to the auric chloride, on fusing, refusing to fill them.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 by Various

Aurate, awr′āt, n. a compound of auric oxide with a base.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Compounds.—Aurous oxide, Au2O, is obtained by cautiously adding potash to a solution of aurous bromide, or by boiling mixed solutions of auric chloride and mercurous nitrate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various