| 单词 | cinnabar |
| 例句 | So he asks Theo to send him his colors: silver, white, lemon chrome yellow, vermilion, geranium lake, carmine, Prussian blue, very light cinnabar green, orange lead, emerald green, and more. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His paintings are great impastos of pigment: chrome yellow, Prussian blue, vermilion, carmine, very light cinnabar green, emerald green, Veronese green, orange, lemon chrome yellow, geranium lake, silver white, zinc white.... Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His clothes, still slightly damp from their recent washing, had returned to their usual cinnabar color. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Úrsula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It swirls, it grapples, it goes off-piste, all the while pumping out clusters of fleshy, horn-shaped blooms in shades of cinnabar to persimmon. The Beauty of a Trumpet Vine 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The playwright meticulously unwraps his psychology, interrupting the churlish commentary with lush and tender descriptions of color, like the “magenta, crimson lake, viridian, burnt sienna, cinnabar green” he’s putting to use in a painting. ‘The Poltergeist’ Review: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Madman 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z It swirls, it grapples, it goes off-piste, all the while pumping out clusters of fleshy, horn-shaped fleurs in shades of cinnabar to persimmon. The Beauty of a Trumpet Vine 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Her house's door and window is painted red after the colouring of the cinnabar ore. Hobbit houses spring up in Bosnia hills 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Never mind the adjective, I was mercury: quicksilver, Hg, hydrargyrum, ore of cinnabar, resistant to herding, incapable of assuming a fixed form. How I found myself befriending a wild fox 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z To study the genetics of these traits, a researcher crossed a true- breeding wild-typed male fly with a true-breeding female fly with a black body and cinnabar eyes. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The latest clothes on her website come in a muted color palette of shades like ecru, cinnabar and rye. The queen of slow fashion on the art of a slow exit 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z The colors pictured here are those that Balla himself specified: a smoldering combination of cinnabar, citron and deep forest. A Vibrant Screen That Resurrects an Artist’s Vision 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z And I was startled by the colors of the ghastly pools that seemed to percolate from the earth: sulfur and cobalt, copper and chrome, cinnabar and plague-viridian. Toxic Ghosts 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Soon dozens of copycat furnaces began appearing in Sukabumi and on islands closer to the cinnabar mines, helping flood the black market with cheap mercury. The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Recombination of the body color and red/ cinnabar eye alleles will occur more frequently than recombination of the alleles for wing length and aristae length. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z He thought of himself as a reformer—manufacturing fresh reds, greens, and yellows to replace older, toxic pigments like cinnabar and orpiment. Treasures from the Color Archive 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z In addition, many of the children were daubed with a bright red pigment made from cinnabar - most likely a part of the sacrificial ritual. Mass child sacrifice found in Peru 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The cinnabar moth caterpillar's coloration pattern warns predators close up, but camouflages the critter from a distance. Animal Coloration Can Serve Double Duty 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z In 2010, as wildcat mining boomed, he said he started searching for cinnabar, the ore from which liquid mercury is produced. The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Clockwise from top left are brown, cinnabar, sepia, vermilion, white, and red. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The stained panels, although softly hued, bring you back to “Dazzler,” whose clashing colors of cinnabar and turquoise signal spiritual elements of celebration and healing within Asian and Native American cultures. Jim DeFrance retrospective at Doyle Arts Pavilion is a dazzler 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z The bones were painted a red color that the researchers speculate is made from a mercury-derived chemical called cinnabar. Ancient Maya King Found in 'Centipede Dynasty' Tomb 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Hansen painted the French doors green and the house a brick-red she calls “an earthy cinnabar,” creating an ideal backdrop to the mix of colorful plantings. A homeowner plants community in her Eastlake garden 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z He arranged to have cinnabar shipped from distant islands, often using express courier services. The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Mutant flies may have a black body and/or cinnabar eyes. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z That cinnabar bangle would pop with coral or polished wood, as well as thick, hammered brass bangles. How to Have Your Say With Bracelets 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z We were at the edge of an old cinnabar mine near the town of Horlivka, in the eastern part of Ukraine. The poisoned poor: In poor countries man-made toxic pollutants spread like cancer. Here’s why you should care 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z The miners extracted the mercury on site, cooking the cinnabar in a metal oven to bring out liquid mercury. Mercury cleanup started at prominent Prineville butte 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z He injected their veins with a special mixture of talc, tallow, wax, cinnabar and oil of lavender. What to do, see, and read this weekend 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z The non-profit Institute for Traditional Medicine in Portland, Orgeon, notes that heavy metals are sometimes present in Chinese herbs from the addition of cinnabar, which contains mercury, and realgar, which contains arsenic. Lead In Chinese Cold Remedy Poisons Toddler; FDA, NYC Warn 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Scrawled in cinnabar and black ink, the manuscripts, detailing the tantric rituals of Buddhist deities, were copies of 15th-century texts. After Winding Odyssey, Tibetan Texts Find Home in China 2014-02-16T01:37:34Z Mercury's bright red ore, cinnabar, has been employed as a pigment since Neolithic times. A beautiful but deadly liquid metal 2013-11-30T02:16:47Z They brought out cinnabar, a reddish-orange ore containing mercury and other metals, she said. Mercury cleanup started at prominent Prineville butte 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Vermilion, also known as cinnabar, is a mineral made of the elements sulphur and mercury. Paintings Turning Black? Blame Mercury 2013-10-06T12:45:00.777Z The pigments included cinnabar, chromium green and lazurite — a blue-green copper compound — as well as tin-lead yellow, which artists stopped using after the 19th century because of toxicity. Romanian’s Tale Has Art World Fearing Worst 2013-07-19T00:15:47Z Most surprisingly, Charlier said, the veins and arteries are filled with a mixture of beeswax, lime and cinnabar mercury. Grotesque Mummy Head Reveals Advanced Medieval Science 2013-03-05T18:45:01.233Z The Spaniards’ forced-labor system sent tens of thousands of Andean Indians into Santa Barbara’s labyrinth of tunnels to dig cinnabar ore. Adobe Homes in Peru's Andes Tell Centuries-Old Toxic Tale 2013-02-13T17:15:18.800Z Whirlpools of purple and gold, Winds from the mountains of cinnabar, Lacquered mandarin moments, palanquins swaying and balancing Amid the vermilion pavilions, against the jade balustrades. Irradiations; Sand and Spray 2012-02-14T03:00:28.347Z To prove that the altered cinnabar was elemental, or "metallic," mercury, Janssens and his colleagues placed the pigment on a platinum surface and dipped it in water that contained chlorine ions. Paintings Turning Black? Blame Mercury 2013-10-06T12:45:00.777Z Revealed in uncanny splendor by the death of verdure, brilliant and evil fungi come from the dark mold in fall, orange and copper, vermilion and cinnabar, dwelling as vampires upon trees brought low. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, cinnabar, and tin, are found in abundance in these Territories, and in eastern and middle Oregon. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z High mercury concentrations were found in soil samples from both towns, although they were higher in Huancavelica, where the cinnabar ore was smelted. Adobe Homes in Peru's Andes Tell Centuries-Old Toxic Tale 2013-02-13T17:15:18.800Z Gold-bearing quartz and silver lodes exist in Cascade and Coast ranges; copper, cinnabar, lead and other minerals are found. Alden's Handy Atlas of the World 2012-01-02T03:00:16.440Z In these sheds they saw huge furnaces, piles of cinnabar and stores of mercury. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Numerous gold mines are worked in the district, which also abounds in copper, silver, antimony, cinnabar, bismuth and nickel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Apart from native quicksilver, Agricola adequately describes cinnabar only. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z The residuum consists of a violet-coloured powder, which, by sublimation, is converted into cinnabar. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z Gold, silver, copper, cinnabar and iron are found; sulphur is abundant in volcanic districts. Alden's Handy Atlas of the World 2012-01-02T03:00:16.440Z The furnaces consist of a retort in which the cinnabar is placed with the combustibles for calcining it. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Mixed with the earth are frequently certain parts, of the colour of cinnabar; whether these are symptomatic of the sulphurous arsenical silver ores, or of quick-silver, I will not pretend to decide. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z There is great confusion in the ancient writers on the use of the word minium, for prior to the Middle Ages it was usually applied to vermilion derived from cinnabar. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z This is called cinnabar, about one third of which is sulphur. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z “I will take you to a place where anything may be bought—cobalt, lapis lazuli, cinnabar, orpiment, sandarac—and it is honestly sold.” In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z There followed the production of a somewhat different form of match, sticks first dipped in sulphur, and then in a composition of chlorate potash, sulphur, colophony, gum of sugar, and cinnabar for coloring. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Mineral Dyes, such as ochres and cinnabar, charcoal. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z He describes minium as the product from cinnabar. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Much mercury is found native in a slaty kind of earth, or in masses of clay or stone; but the greatest quantity is found combined with sulphur in native cinnabar. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z Fat purveyors of tittle-tattle with a cat on their knees, aldermen in wigs, burgomasters wearing a three-cornered hat and the whole thing set off by luminous ochre and cinnabar by the bucketful. The Mysterious Sketch 2011-05-03T02:00:14.907Z By William Hunter essential oils, alcohol, cinnabar, camphor, saltpetre and pitch or rosin were employed, and the final desiccation of the body was effected by means of roasted gypsum placed in its coffin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z In the forest previous to my arrival at Ouske, I picked up a striated stone, from a small cleft in the rock, which had the appearance of imperfect cinnabar. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z He also describes the touchstone and its uses, the making of white-lead and verdigris, and of quicksilver from cinnabar. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z The second group consists of purchases made by travelers — souvenirs that range from trinkets to more valuable objects like a pair of cinnabar vases from China on display here. Arts | Connecticut: ?Exotic Encounters? at the Bruce Museum 2010-03-20T02:15:00Z The cinnabar, as it appears, has accumulated in greatest quantity under impervious rocks such as shales and marls along planes that separate these from underlying rocks of more open texture, mostly limestones. Fossil Ice Crystals An Instance of the Practical Value of "Pure Science" It includes diamonds, the majority of which, however, are of a somewhat yellow colour, gold, quicksilver, cinnabar, copper, iron, tin, antimony, mineral oils, sulphur, rock-salt, marble and coal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" In other rooms hung the original pictures of hackneyed mezzotints; and how rare they looked now with their velvety pigments of emerald and purple, of orange, cinnabar and scarlet glowing in the tempered sunlight! Plashers Mead A Novel It is sometimes adulterated with cinnabar, starch and other materials; from these the carmine can be separated by dissolving it in ammonia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Native women sold into slavery to the cinnabar mines to hell and death. Where the Pavement Ends Hepatic cinnabar is an impure variety from Idria in Carniola, in which the cinnabar is mixed with bituminous and earthy matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Bosnia is rich in minerals, including coal, iron, copper, chrome, manganese, cinnabar, zinc and mercury, besides marble and much excellent building stone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The Maya artists seem to have used mostly vegetable colors; yet they also employed ochres as pigments, and cinnabar—we having found such metallic colors in Chaacmol’s mausoleum. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa Her great bald summit, clear of trees and pasture, a cairn of quartz and cinnabar, rejected kinship with the dark and shaggy wilderness of lesser hilltops. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) She was the girl of the cinnabar boat, the girl that had glanced upward from the evil decks. Where the Pavement Ends The hardness of cinnabar is 3, and its specific gravity 8.998. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" It is probable that cinnabar was tempered, by admixture of white or other colours, for the monochrome painting of the Egyptians and Greeks. Needlework As Art I am well assured of the existence of the latter in the form of a native cinnabar, which is called Sabita by the natives, and is exported to the low country for sale. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha It is the same, they say, in the neighbourhood of all silver mines; the nature of that precious rock being stubborn with quartz and poisonous with cinnabar. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) The man—the man who bought those cinnabar girls—he came to talk business. Where the Pavement Ends Towards one end of the twig probably the prominences will be of a deeper, richer colour, like powdered cinnabar. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses His bathroom walls were slabs of glossy actinolite, inlaid with cinnabar, jade, galena, pyrite and blue malachite, in representations of fantastic birds. Sjambak He lived on cinnabar and wore no clothing. The Chinese Fairy Book Here, doubtless, came the Indians of yore to paint their faces for the war-path; and cinnabar, if I remember rightly, was one of the few articles of Indian commerce. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) And he remembered something else—another evil he had done nothing to check that day—the passage of the cinnabar boat with her ruddy devils and suspected errand.... Where the Pavement Ends The naked eye is sufficient to detect some difference between the two kinds of pustules, and where the two merge into each other specks of cinnabar will be visible on the pink projections. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses In the establishment of his cinnabar mine some years before, Spawn was originally financed by Perona. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 The magic signs written on it with cinnabar, quite fresh and well-preserved, might still be seen. The Chinese Fairy Book The cinnabar ran like thick blood-red veins in the rock. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 He remembered that in Europe quicksilver was extracted from cinnabar, and with this earth he made some experiments which led to the opening of this mine. Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Sometimes there are cinnabar stains on the pileus. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Fifteen grains of burnt sponge are beaten up with a similar quantity of millipede, and from eight to ten grains of cinnabar antimony. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families He lived in the time of the Han dynasty, and discovered the wonderful magic of golden cinnabar, the philosopher’s stone. The Chinese Fairy Book But its base is stained red, a creeping blood-red from the cinnabar. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China In the latter, saltpetre, sulphur, native cinnabar, and a few other articles are occasionally prescribed. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton Prof. Fries speaks of them as follows: "Exterior veil woven, red, arranged in 2–4 distant cinnabar zones encircling the stem; partial veil continuous with the upper zone, arachnoid, reddish-white." The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Gold, ivory, cinnabar, dye-woods, spices, and slaves, added to the wealth of the kingdom only to furnish forth new ventures. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History For the stuff is a compound of three substances—animal, vegetable and mineral; there is a fine vegetable oil, he says, some waxy preparation, certainly of animal origin, and a mineral—cinnabar: vermilion, in fact. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator One of the richest of China's unknown aristocrats, the central power of the cinnabar ring. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China We now give the following list of colors, known to be generally used by ancient painters: Red.—The ancient reds were very numerous, cinnabar, vermilion, bisulphuret of mercury, called also by Pliny and Vitruvius, minium. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life It is sometimes found in globules, but it is generally procured from one of its ores, cinnabar, a sulphate of the metal, of a red colour, and indeed identical with the richly prepared paint vermilion. The Mines and its Wonders Certain of the hot-spring waters of the California coast ranges and of Nevada carry considerable quantities of boron, together with ammoniacal salts, and in some places they deposit borax along with sulphur and cinnabar. The Economic Aspect of Geology United with sulphur it seldom enters the circulation, as when cinnabar, or �thiop's mineral, are taken inwardly. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life They say his cellar is filled with gold—pure gold; that his rooms and halls run and drip with gold, just as his rat-eaters run and drip with the cinnabar poison. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Without some such protection the colors of these pictures soon decay; the cinnabar, or vermilion, especially, turns black after a few days' exposure to the light. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Quicksilver is abundant from extensive veins of cinnabar in the province of Mancha. The Mines and its Wonders The chief mineral of mercury, from which probably over 95 per cent of the world's mercury comes, is the brilliant red sulphide, cinnabar. The Economic Aspect of Geology M. M. Ascarides are said to be weakened by twenty grains of cinnabar and five of rhubarb taken every night, but not to be cured by this process. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life He pictured again the splendors of the blue-domed white palace which reposed like a beast of prey atop the red filth disgorged by the cinnabar mine. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China We find among them different shades of the same color, several reds, for instance, as sinopis, cinnabar, and others. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The ore known as cinnabar is of a dark-red colour, and gives a beautiful appearance to the galleries. The Mines and its Wonders Thus cinnabar, when taken with its customary associations, is regarded as a sort of geologic thermometer. The Economic Aspect of Geology Only one deposit of cinnabar has so far been discovered, that was in 1867. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo The air, rather than grow dark, appeared to thicken with raw color, with mauve and ultramarine, silver and cinnabar. Mountain Blood A Novel Caligula, in a fit of extravagance, used chrysocolla; and Nero, to surpass him, caused the brilliant red of cinnabar to be mixed with it. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Stolen yesterday afternoon out of an apothecary's shop Three Specie Glasses, with brass caps; one contained two pounds of native cinnabar. Drug Supplies in the American Revolution In the weathering of mercury deposits, cinnabar behaves somewhat like the corresponding silver sulphide, argentite. The Economic Aspect of Geology Fr., is shelving, spongy, pliant, rather thick, cinnabar colored. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. Take powder of bitter almonds, eight ounces; oil of the same, twelve ounces; savon vert of the perfumes, eight ounces; spermaceti, four ounces; soap powder, four ounces; cinnabar, two drams; essence of rose, one dram. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources This so-called precipitate had the appearance of small dark-red crystals resembling cinnabar. Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 Quicksilver occurs in the mineral cinnabar, a sulphide. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The articles of exchange are copper, quicksilver, cinnabar, glass, woollen cloths, and canvas, and above all iron and spectacles, without mentioning porcelain, and diamonds, some of which were of extraordinary size and value. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World The flesh is light yellowish and with stains of cinnabar. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. Other metals, such as cinnabar, iron, and tin are, for the nonce, like Gray's violet, "born to blush unseen," until some ingenious person discovers in them a subtle attraction. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 From malachite they obtained several shades of green, from cinnabar or sulphide of mercury, a number of reds. Chinese Painters A Critical Study Down fell a small bird rather larger than a thrush, the plumage as we saw it falling being of the most intense cinnabar red with the softest and most lovely gloss. In the Eastern Seas But I must not omit to note that he makes no mention of some earth colours, such as dark terra rossa, cinnabar and some greens in glass, perhaps because they were not in use. The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) Sometimes there are cinnabar stains on parts of the pileus, and often there are concentric rows of scales near the margin. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. Copper is abundant; tin, cinnabar, sulphur, and coal exist. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development The reds seem for the most part to be composed of oxide of iron mixed with lime, and were probably limited to iron earths and ochres, with a native cinnabar or vermilion. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists As cinnabar this substance forms the chief native compound of mercury, occurring in red crystalline masses. An Elementary Study of Chemistry I shall now proceed to explain the nature of cinnabar. The Ten Books on Architecture It is made of shellac, Venice turpentine and cinnabar. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference The hot climate of Mexico and confinement in the mines, hundreds of feet below the surface and in the salivating fumes of the cinnabar retorts, assisted to make me impetuous. Bohemian Days Three American Tales Among other places, the natural product is met with in California, Spain, and Peru; and in China there is a native cinnabar so pure as only to require grinding to become very perfect vermilion. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists Mercury occurs native and, occasionally, alloyed with gold or silver in natural amalgams; but its chief ore is the sulphide, cinnabar. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Take an iron plate, put the cinnabar upon it, and lay it on the fire until the plate gets red hot. The Ten Books on Architecture Then we had the cinnabar mines—you may see them along the slope to northward, right over the west end of the town. Wandering Heath My discovery of native cinnabar will then prove valuable. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative With barium, the acid furnishes a yellowish-red powder, insoluble in, but made denser by water, which imparts to it a cinnabar colour. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists No mercury-containing minerals are insoluble in acids; but cinnabar requires aqua regia for solution. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. When the cinnabar has given up its quicksilver, and thus lost the natural virtues that it previously had, it becomes soft in quality and its powers are feeble. The Ten Books on Architecture The track towards the cinnabar works was pretty easy to follow, first along; but when I had climbed some four or five hundred feet it grew fainter, and was lost at length under the pine-needles. Wandering Heath Veins of sulphide of mercury, cinnabar, or vermilion have been found in other parts of the Protectorate: we suspected their presence at Apatim, and collected specimens, still to be assayed. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative If the colour be boiled in a large excess of moderately strong nitric acid it is dissolved, yielding magnificent cinnabar red crystals on the solution cooling. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists If 3.169 grams of cinnabar gave 2.718 grams of mercury, what would be the percentage of the metal in the ore? A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. I have now said all that I could think of about cinnabar. The Ten Books on Architecture Behind and above the 'Necropolis' the hill rose steeply; and there, high up, were traces of the disused cinnabar mines—patches of orange-coloured earth thrusting out among the pines. Wandering Heath The sinking through stiff clay, stained with iron, cobalt, manganese, and cinnabar, was reported easy. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Minium, or Saturnine Red, is an ancient pigment, by some old writers confounded with cinnabar, and termed Sinoper or Synoper. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists Long streams of cinnabar and orange flare up in the western sky. Some Summer Days in Iowa Besides native mercury, which the ores of Almaden contain in greater or smaller quantity, the most abundant mineral is cinnabar, which is always crystalline and is often crystallized. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 We know, for instance, that those of Pompeii employed mineral substances almost exclusivelyPg 77 in the preparation of their colors; among them chalk, ochre, cinnabar, minium, etc. The Wonders of Pompeii I have mentioned that at Akankon my companion showed me a large vein of cinnabar. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative He will reverse all natural laws—as though Nature should suddenly let bone dissolve, while cinnabar resisted the fire. More Translations from the Chinese The ores, with which they painted themselves, were a red, brittle, unctuous ochre, or iron-ore, not much unlike cinnabar in colour; a bright blue pigment, which we did not procure; and black-lead. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 The ores have, besides, a small quantity of selenium and iron pyrites intimately mixed with the cinnabar. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 It forms part of a soft, red rock called cinnabar, composed of mercury and sulphur. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Amongst other remedies, also, was a medicine composed of cinnabar and musk, an East Indian specific, and one of powdered Virginian snake-root, gum asafoetida, and gum camphire, mixed and taken as a bolus. Stories of the Border Marches The yellow lion was the alchemical symbol of yellow sulphides, the red lion was synonymous with cinnabar, and the green lion meant salts of iron and of copper. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry Among the minerals found are gold, silver, cinnabar, copper, iron, coal and petroleum; the chief products being opium, white wax, hemp, yellow silk. Across China on Foot Metal is there called the richest mineral, composed of quartz impregnated with crystalline cinnabar. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 The cinnabar is crushed and exposed to heat, when the metal, in the form of vapor, passes into a vessel suited to the purpose, where it is cooled. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 In the dead body, arteries filled with substances opaque to the X rays, such as plaster of Paris or cinnabar mixtures, have already been skiagraphed successfully. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 But there are other kinds of cinnabar, commonly called cinoper or vermillion, which the painters use in certain colours. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Gold, silver, copper, lead, cinnabar, manganese, and all kinds of minerals were represented by a large variety of rich samples. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission His lacquered shelves hold priceless pottery—peachblow and cinnabar and silver grey—pottery glazed like the new moon, fired how long ago for a moon-pale princess of the East, whose very name is dust! Profiles from China This caused the country where they lived to be examined, and the cinnabar was found. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Many rocks were covered with a red coating resembling cinnabar, in several places we found small veins of pure sulphur, and each moment something new and wonderful met our gaze. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy There remained, then, the paler greens, such as peacock, cinnabar or lacquer, but the light banishes their blues and brings out their yellows in tones that have a false and undecided quality. Against the Grain Ivory-black is mixed with the gum to produce a black colour; and cinnabar or vermilion, to render the paste either brown or red. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The overseers, after rubbing their black noses with cinnabar powder, which they carried in a sack, bowed to the ground. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen In the courtyard, elephants trumpeted, and swart men with beards dyed crimson stood with blood-stained hands folded upon their hilts, guarding the caravan from El Sharnak, the camels with Tyrian stuffs of topaz and cinnabar. Main Street Her great bald summit, clear of trees and pasture, a cairn of quartz and cinnabar, rejected kinship with the dark and shaggy wilderness of lesser hill-tops. The Silverado Squatters And the corner to the right of the fireplace was shut off by a high Japanese screen of cinnabar and gold. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama According to the description given me, cinnabar is also found here, but we could discover no specimen of it after half an hour's digging. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land The pigments used in the wilds were red cinnabar, black pigment from the eye of trout, a green vegetable dye from wild onions, and a blue obtained, he said, from the root of a plant. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow I heard a vesper-sparrow sing, Withdrawn, it seemed, into the far Slow sunset's tranquil cinnabar; The crimson, softly smoldering Behind the trees, with its one star. Poems The cement is sometimes of so bright a red that the people of the country take it for cinnabar. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The floor is covered with an oilcloth mosaic of jade and azure and cinnabar rhomboids. Ulysses Many prospectors have undoubtedly traced a blood red vein of rock coursing from this place toward Willow Creek—a valuable lode of cinnabar, they must have thought. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales Examine cinnabar, vermilion, mercury, red oxide, mercurous and mercuric chloride. An Introduction to Chemical Science When I came in the other evening, hungry and tired and ill-natured, and threw down my pick and shovel, Raish gave me your specimen—said Bagley brought it, and asked me if it were cinnabar. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) In Bathrolaire when Day's old doors unbar The motley mask, fantastically wreathed, Pass through a strong portcullis brazen teethed, And enter glowing mines of cinnabar. Forty-Two Poems Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones. Ulysses For I have seen the Roof-ridge red in the sunlight as if it were painted with cinnabar.’” The House of the Wolfings That opportunity was the securing of a half interest in a cinnabar lode in Sonora, which has already gone up a hundred thousand dollars in his hands! A Sappho of Green Springs Them men as works in cinnabar sooner or later gets salviated. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories Pansa regrets nothing more than that he is not rich enough to strew the arena with borax and cinnabar, as Nero used to do.' Last Days of Pompeii According to Helmholtz, it is senseless to ask whether cinnabar is red as we see it or is only so as an optical illusion. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students There were trunks of trees smeared with cinnabar, which resembled columns covered with blood. Salammbo The red color of cinnabar exists as such only in so far as there are eyes which are similar to those of the majority of mankind. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The finding of a cinnabar lode at Angel's absorbed all collateral facts or subsequent details. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories As such light reflected from cinnabar may not properly be called red; it is red only for especial kinds of eyes.'' Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students |
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