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Definition of Crocoite

Crocoite
Crocoite Cro"co*ite (kr?"k?-?t), n. [Gr. ???? saffron.] (Min.) Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.

Meaning of Crocoite from wikipedia

- Crocoite is a mineral consisting of lead chromate, PbCrO4, and crystallizing in the monoclinic crystal system. It is identical in composition with the...
- name chrome yellow, and many other names. It occurs also as the mineral crocoite. Lead chromate adopts the mo****te structure, meaning that the connectivity...
- Louis Nicolas Vauquelin received samples of crocoite ore. He produced chromium trioxide (CrO3) by mixing crocoite with hydrochloric acid. In 1797, Vauquelin...
- obtained directly from the liquor. Chromate containing minerals are rare. Crocoite, PbCrO4, which can occur as spectacular long red crystals, is the most...
- Leatherwood (unofficial) (Eucryphia lucida) Colour(s) Bottle Green (PMS 342), Yellow (PMS 114), & Maroon (PMS 194) Mineral Crocoite (PbCrO4) Website tas.gov.au...
- orange. In 1797 a French scientist Louis Vauquelin discovered the mineral crocoite, or lead chromate, which led in 1809 to the invention of the synthetic...
- Sapphire (var.) Padparadscha Golden sheen sapphire Covellite Creedite Crocoite Cryolite Cuprite Danburite Datolite Descloizite Diamond Bort Ballas Diaspore...
- mineral was crocoite with a formula of PbCrO4. Studying the mineral in 1797, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin produced chromium trioxide by mixing crocoite with hydrochloric...
- Cornwallite Corundum Cotunnite Covellite Coyoteite Creedite Cristobalite Crocoite Cronstedtite Crookesite Crossite (not approved by IMA) Cryolite Cryptomelane...
- pigments. Chrome yellow (lead chromate, PbCrO 4), derived from the mineral crocoite, was used by artists in the earlier part of the 19th century, but has been...