Crossword-Solution: ORPIMENT
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| Orpiment | n. | Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing. |
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Sentences with ORPIMENT (5)
Green Velvet--Mix Prussian blue and red-orpiment, shade with purple, and touch up the lights with a little white.
Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenticum of the ancients.
Green bice is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper.
Our orpiment, and sublim’d mercury, Our ground litharge* eke on the porphyry, *white lead Of each of these of ounces a certain,* *certain proportion Not helpeth us, our labour is in vain.
The precious volume was in single leaves, some six inches broad by treble that length, and the paper was stained with yellow orpiment and the juice of tamarind seeds to keep away insects.