realgar

NOUN
  1. a rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide; an important ore of arsenic
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How To Use realgar In A Sentence

  • Orpiment is a lesser mineral associated with realgar and lead sulfosalts in dolomite at Binnental, Valais, Switzerland.
  • South China has the custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.
  • Mix together realgar and orpiment; some object to this mixture on account of the poisonous nature of the ingredients. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
  • Orpiment and realgar are yellow and orange mineral species of arsenic sulphide, used in 16th-century Venetian painting particularly, but at various other times also.
  • This is procured by mixing massicot, or Naples yellow, with a small quantity of realgar, and a very little Spanish white. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
  • Several other, less-common minerals contain arsenic, including orpiment, realgar, and enargite, which are arsenic sulfides. Arsenic
  • Ores consist of pyrite, blende, aurum, zinckenite, tennantite, antimonite, realgar, and orpiment, belong to typical Low-temperature minerals assemblage.
  • But, among what Ms. Moore lists as ‘poisonous’ pigments are cinnabar and realgar.
  • Small amounts of realgar have been reported from a large number of European occurrences, generally related to relatively recent volcanism, limestone or dolomite quarries, or base- and precious-metal deposits.
  • Such are the kinds of stones that cannot be melted, and realgar, and ochre, and ruddle, and sulphur, and the other things of that kind, most Meteorology
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