orpiment

[ US /ˈɔɹpəmənt/ ]
[ UK /ˈɔːpɪmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a yellow mineral occurring in conjunction with realgar; an ore of arsenic

How To Use orpiment In A Sentence

  • Orpiment is most frequently encountered in epithermal (near-surface, low - temperature) hydrothermal settings such as veins, hot springs, fumaroles.
  • The most expensive stones used for seals are orpiment, agalmatolite originating in East China's Fujian Province and cornelian (Jixueshi).
  • Of these, lead white, red ochre, red lake, orpiment and Prussian blue do not appear in the 1892 list; but all these pigments have been found elsewhere in Watts's oeuvre.
  • Even the arsenic mine at Shimen, Hunan Province, is still the source of minor amounts of good realgar, orpiment, and calcite.
  • Even the arsenic mine at Shimen, Hunan Province, is still the source of minor amounts of good realgar, orpiment, and calcite.
  • Orpiment made a brilliant yellow pigment, but it turned an unattractive dark shade when mixed with or placed close to copper - or lead-based colors such as verdigris or vermilion. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Commonly associated minerals include orpiment, stibnite, a variety of sulfides and sulfosalts, calcite, and barite.
  • It occurs as metallic arsenic, which is of a steel-grey colour, brittle, and gives off a garlic-like odour when heated; as arsenious acid; in the form of two sulphides -- the red sulphide, or realgar, and the yellow sulphide, or orpiment; and as arsenite of copper, or Scheele's green. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
  • These included a rapid technique for coloring linen or cotton involving orpiment (a highly phlogistic substance) dissolved in soapmakers 'lye. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Commonly associated minerals include orpiment, stibnite, a variety of sulfides and sulfosalts, calcite, and barite.
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