gamboge

How To Use gamboge In A Sentence

• Upon all vegetable lakes, except those of madder, they have a destructive effect; and are injurious to gamboge, as well as to those almost obsolete pigments, red and orange leads, king's and patent yellow, massicot, and orpiment. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• In painting it follows, and adds richness and depth to, gamboge in water, and goes well into varnish; but any lead used in rendering oils siccative, browns it, and for the same reason it is useless in tints. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• Put four ounces of the best gum gamboge into 32 ozs. of spirits of turpentine, 4 ozs. of dragon's blood into the same quantity of spirits of turpentine as the gamboge, and 1 oz. of anatto into 8 ozs. of the same spirits. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
• All were identified as gamboge, a yellow gum resin that is an exudate from the Garcinia tree found in India, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
• -- This tree produces the tropical fruit called mangosteen, a beautiful fruit, having a thick, succulent rind, which contains an astringent juice, and exudes a gum similar to gamboge. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
• A strong moon cast its blue and gamboge light across the boarded-up fronts of the houses by the towpath.
• Pure gamboge is completely soluble by successive treatment with ether or alcohol and then water.
• The gum-resin from G. hanburyi is often called Siamese gamboge to distinguish it from the similar product from the bark of G. morella Desr., called Indian gamboge.
• If a mixture of gamboge yellow and safflower red had been used in ‘Mane-e-mon’ then the 3-D contour plots Y1 and Y2 would prove that gamboge yellow had been used.
• There are many other wild and cultivated Garcinia spp, some providing sweet fruits, others tart seasonings, medicines, dyes, the artist's pigment gamboge, substances used for tanning leather, and timber.