Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rare lead chromate mineral, PbCrO4, that forms brilliant orange crystals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral, a native chromate of lead or red-lead ore, found in brilliant red crystals in the Urals and Brazil, and also massive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also
red lead ore .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A rare red
mineral ; lead chromate,Pb Cr O 4.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration of French crocoise, from Greek krokoeis, saffron-colored, from krokos, saffron; see crocus.]
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Examples
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Chromium is a metallic element found in nature in the form of chromite ore or the mineral crocoite.
Alternatives for significant uses of hexavalent chromium in Massachusetts 2008
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This mineral, crocoite (PbCrO4, lead chromate), was known as “red lead” because of the beautiful orange-red color of its crystals.
Chromium 2007
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Chromium produces the color orange-red color of crocoite, (lead chromate).
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Chromium produces the color orange-red color of crocoite, (lead chromate).
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