Definition of "aurous" []

• Of or relating to gold, especially with valence 1. (adjective)

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• "Au (I), referred to as the aurous ion, is the most common oxidation state with soft phosphines."
• "The element forms two series of salts in which it acts as a metal: in the aurous series the gold is univalent, the chloride having the formula AuCl; in the auric series it is trivalent, auric chloride having the formula"
• "Operating on a perforated platinum basin, in the first instance, I placed a few milligrammes of the aurous chloride from a 15 grain tube precisely over the perforation, and then gently heated to about 200° C. till the salt melted and ran through the holes."