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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A trade-name for cupric sulphate converted into a dusting-powder, for application to plants as a fungicide, by being soaked up in solution by an inert mineral powder, such as soapstone, and dried. Also known as cupric steatite and sulphosteatite.

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