cinnabar

How To Use cinnabar In A Sentence

• In the 5th century B.C., Asian artists discovered that the mineral cinnabar produced a stable, vivid red.
• Instead of using traditional Japanese mineral pigments such as azurite, lapis, malachite and cinnabar mixed with gelatin, he employed his familiar oil paints and European gilding methods.
• This is when the first texts for obtaining mercury from its ore cinnabar appear.
• The places cinnabar and calomel can be mined in the world are as follows.
• His lacquered shelves hold priceless pottery -- peachblow and cinnabar and silver grey -- pottery glazed like the new moon, fired how long ago for a moon-pale princess of the East, whose very name is dust! Profiles from China
• But, among what Ms. Moore lists as ‘poisonous’ pigments are cinnabar and realgar.
• The data obtained can be used as a reference for controlling soluble mercury contents in Chinese traditional patent medicines containing cinnabar.
• Often highly noxious adulterants were used: cayenne pepper, which easily loses its red colour, was tinted with cinnabar, an extremely poisonous mercury compound.
• These last few have been days to hold on to: bright sunshine through fat-bottomed clouds; ringlet butterflies flickering over flowering grasses; yellow-and-black-banded cinnabar moth caterpillars twitching as they spun threads to tie themselves to ragwort; bright pink lip-gloss heads of pyramidal orchids – these things once observed becoming dearly held. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
• In the 16 paintings in this show, Shinoda uses black sumi and cinnabar inks in asymmetrical compositions that balance empty space.