orpiment

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.