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cinnabar::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | chinese-red, vermilion, vermillion |
cinnabar::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | callimorpha jacobeae, cinnabar moth |
| Type of | arctiid, arctiid moth |
cinnabar::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | mineral |
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Red Devil was named after the Red Devil cinnabar mine, a primary source of mercury.
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A specimen of cinnabar, the common ore of mercury, atop a larger sample of dolomite.
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Varieties such as cinnabar and scarlet tiger moths are on the wing during the daytime.
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This scanning electron microscope image shows particles of cinnabar before sonication.
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Cinnabar sometimes alters to native mercury in the oxidized zone of mercury deposits.
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Mercury is extracted by heating cinnabar in a current of air and condensing the vapor.
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Cinnabar resembles quartz in its symmetry and certain of its optical characteristics.
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The red pigment vermilion is mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar.
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Native mercury with cinnabar, Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California.
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- A heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury
- Vermilion: of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
- Large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
- Cinnabar (/u02C8su026Anu0259bu0251u02D0r/) and cinnabarite (/su026Anu0259u02C8bu0251u02D0rau026At/), likely deriving from the Greek u03BAu03B9u03BDu03BDu03B1u03B2u03B1u03C1u03B9 (kinnabari), refer to the common bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide, formula HgS, that is the most common source ore for refining elemental mercury, and is the historic source for the brilliant red or scarlet pigment termed vermilion and associated red mercury pigments.
- A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion; a bright red colour tinted with orange; Of a bright red colour tinted with orange
- A soft stone composed of mercury sulfide, cinnabar is bright or brick red in color and is often carved in intricate fashion. Today, much jewelry called cinnabar is actually a heavy molded polymer made to resemble cinnabar beads, or red lacquered wood. Buy Cinnabar Beads
- Red is a symbol of long life in China and the Chinese have used cinnabar in their art for centuries. ...
- 1. cystallized red mercuric sulfide, artificially used a red pigment. 2. brilliant red
- The bar where mineralogists break the Ten Commandments: the cinnabar.
