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Caput mortuum, a Common card
Caput mortuum, also known as cardinal purple, is the name given to a purple variety of hematite iron oxide pigment, used in oil paints and paper dyes.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 38
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 73
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 73 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 15 % of WikiCards cards.
Caput mortuum quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Caput mortuum card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The name for this pigment may have come from the alchemical usage, since iron oxide is a useless residue of ______.
Answer
oxidization. The name for this pigment may have come from the alchemical usage, since iron oxide is a useless residue of oxidization. From the Caput mortuum article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Absorption. Absorption 54 · List of concert tours by Elton John 51 · Fat Ass 42 · Caput mortuum 38 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
List of concert tours by Elton John. List of concert tours by Elton John 27,000 · Concealer 21,000 · Caput mortuum 11,000 · Fat Ass 8,600 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Due to the cultural significance of its deep purple colour, it was popular for painting the robes of religious figures and important personages, with its popularity peaking in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- The name for this pigment may have come from the alchemical usage, since iron oxide is a useless residue of oxidization.
- It was originally a byproduct of sulfuric acid manufacture during the 17th and 18th centuries, and was possibly an early form of the copperas process used for the manufacture of Venetian red and copperas red.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Caput mortuum article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 38 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Caput mortuum
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Caput mortuum (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : W. Oelen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
