Orpiment

Orpiment, which is termed [Greek: arsenikon] in Greek, is dug up in

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

'Orpiment' is now my favourite word, and I shall not cease from exploration until I find a way of working it into the conversation. ckc (not kc) said,

Sadly, No! 2008

Orpiment is a bright yellow mineral composed of arsenic sulfide (As2S3), and is the most highly-visible common arsenic mineral.

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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 2006

Take _Orpiment_, and _Verdigreese_, of each an ounce, of _Vitriall_ burned till it be red, two ounces, beat each of them by it selfe in

A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous

Also called _King's Yellow_, _Chinese Yellow_, _Yellow Orpiment_, &c., was known in ancient times: the Romans called it _auri pigmentum_ or gold colour, whence, by corruption, its present name is derived.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Orpiment or King's yellow may be used, and the effect is enhanced by dissolving powdered turmeric root in the methylated spirits from which the upper or polishing coat is made, which methylated spirits must be strained from off the dregs before the seed-lac is added to it to form the varnish.

Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing William N. Brown

Orpiment, which was so much in use in Sir Joshua's time, the ill effects of which is visible in the President's "Holy Family" in our National

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

Orpiment is a vein of the earth, or a manner of free stone that cleaveth and breaketh, and it is like to gold in colour: and this is called Arsenic by another name, and is double, red and citron.

Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

The term Αρσενίκον, from which the word Arsenic is derived, was an ancient epithet applied to those natural substances which possessed strong and acrimonious properties; and as the poisonous quality of arsenic was found to be remarkably powerful, the term was especially applied to Orpiment, the form in which this metal most usually occurred.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839