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Orpiment, also
known as ″yellow ****nic blende″ is a deep-colored, orange-yellow ****nic
sulfide mineral with
formula As 2S 3. It is
found in volcanic...
- ore
minerals —
orpiment and realgar,: 135, 239, 438 in
composition — ****nic sulfides. Both of
these minerals,
realgar and
orpiment, have been mined...
- compact, or
powdery form,
often in ****ociation with the
related mineral,
orpiment (As2S3). It is orange-red in color,
melts at 320 °C, and
burns with a bluish...
- in
France has a
painting of a
yellow horse 17,000
years old.
Ochre and
orpiment pigments were used to
represent gold and skin
color in
Egyptian tombs,...
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Pigments were also made in
ancient times from a
mineral known as
orpiment.
Orpiment was an
important item of
trade in the
Roman Empire and was used as...
- 'the
orpiment',
based on
Persian zar ("gold") from the word زرنيخ zarnikh,
meaning "yellow" (literally "gold-colored") and
hence "(yellow)
orpiment". It...
- Paul A
Dictionary of
Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 201 (See
under Orpiment [a
synonym of the
color name
Royal Yellow] );
color sample of
Royal Yellow:...
- the Five
Minerals to a mixture. The Five
Minerals are realgar, cinnabar,
orpiment, alum, and
laminar malachite [五石者, 雄黃, 丹砂, 雌黃, 礬石, 曾青也]. When they have...
- lake, azurite, ultramarine,
yellow lake and lead-tin-yellow.
Synthetic orpiment was
shown in the
shadows of the
sleeve of the
jewish groom. This toxic...
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discovered a
chemical depilatory made from a
mixture of lime and
water and
orpiment (****nic trisulfide). "Hair Preparations", Ullmann's
Encyclopedia of Industrial...
