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- Orpiment, also known as ″yellow ****nic blende″ is a deep-colored, orange-yellow ****nic sulfide mineral with formula As 2S 3. It is found in volcanic...
- Color Nomenclature (1912), "Chartreuse Yellow" is listed and illustrated. Orpiment, also known as ″yellow ****nic blende″ is a deep-colored, orange-yellow...
- compact, or powdery form, often in ****ociation with the related mineral, orpiment (As2S3). It is orange-red in color, melts at 320 °C, and burns with a bluish...
- and ****nic vapor. With 46% ****nic content, ****nopyrite, along with orpiment, is a prin****l ore of ****nic. When deposits of ****nopyrite become exposed...
- in France has a painting of a yellow horse 17,000 years old. Ochre and orpiment pigments were used to represent gold and skin color in Egyptian tombs,...
- yellow solid that is insoluble in water. It also occurs as the mineral orpiment (Latin: auripigmentum), which has been used as a pigment called King's...
- ore mineralsorpiment and realgar,: 135, 239, 438  in composition — ****nic sulfides. Both of these minerals, realgar and orpiment, have been mined...
- Pigments were also made in ancient times from a mineral known as orpiment. Orpiment was an important item of trade in the Roman Empire and was used as...
- Maomao peels off the wallpaper, revealing a hidden painting made with orpiment, an ****nic-based mineral, explaining the preservation of the emperor's...
- 'the orpiment', based on Persian zar ("gold") from the word زرنيخ zarnikh, meaning "yellow" (literally "gold-colored") and hence "(yellow) orpiment". It...