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

The auric acid combines immediately with potash and soda.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 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

The substance I used was auric chloride, AuCl3, which, as is well known, splits up on heating, first into aurous chloride, and at a higher temperature gives off all its chlorine and leaves metallic gold.

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