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CAPILLARY RED COPPER-ORE. 137 Third Subspecies. Capillary Red Copper-ore. Haarformiges Kupferglas, Werner. Kupferbliithe, Werner, Pabst. b. i. s. 68.—Fibrous red Copper- ore, Kirrv. vol. ii. p. 137-—Kupferbliithe, Eslner, b. m. s. 538. Id. Emm. b. ii. s. 216.—Le Cuivre Oxide rouge capillaire, Brock, t. ii. p. 184.—Haarforniiger Rothkupfererz, Reuss, b. iii. s. 439. Id. Lud. b. i. s. 227- Id. Suck. 2ter th. s. 194. Id. Bert. s. 382. Id. Molts, b. iii. s. 226. Id. Leonhard, Tabel. s . 56. Cuivre oxidule capillaire, Brong. t. n. p. 219- Haarformiges Rothkupfererz, Karslen, Tabel. s. 62.—Cuivre oxydule capillaire, Hauy, Tabl. p. 88.-Capillary Red Copper, Aikin, p. 29. External Characters. Its colour is most commonly carmine-red, which some times approaches to cochineal-red. It occurs in small capillary crystals, also in thin tables, which are sometimes aggregated into amorphous and scopiform flakes. It is shining, and the lustre is adamantine. It is translucent; but its internal aspect, and the other external characters, cannot be determined, on account of the smallness of the parts of the mineral. Chemical Characters of the Species. It is easily reduced to the metallic state before the blowpipe: if pulverised, and thrown into nitric acid, a violent effervescence ensues, and the copper is dissolved, the