aurous

Despite the loss, the United States entered the 2022 Winter Games with aurous dreams and remains hopeful after a strong start in Beijing.

Gilt-lanterns hang out of windows, casting an aurous glow over all the buildings.

Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; Ð said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower valence; as, aurous oxide.

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.

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.