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  2. Vermilion - Wikipedia

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    Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) [1] is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange , which often takes a modern form, but is 11% brighter (at full brightness).

  3. Cinnabar - Wikipedia

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    Mercury(II) sulfide, HgS, adopts the cinnabar structure described, and one additional structure, i.e. it is dimorphous. [16] Cinnabar is the more stable form, and is a structure akin to that of HgO: each Hg center has two short Hg−S bonds (each 2.36 Å), and four longer Hg···S contacts

  4. Wakasugiyama Site - Wikipedia

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    Vermillion was used extensively in ancient Japan on dotaku, earthenware, and to decorate the walls of kofun burial chambers, and was used in funeral ceremonies. In the Chinese history Wajinden, it is recorded that cinnabar was a noted product of the Kingdom of Wa and was among the tribute items offered by Queen Himiko to the Cao Wei Court.

  5. Red pigments - Wikipedia

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    Vermilion is a very ancient red-orange pigment, made by pulverizing the mineral cinnabar.Its defect is that it is liable to darken with age, and sometimes develops a purple-red surface sheen, as seen in some paintings by Paolo Uccello, including the bridles of the horses depicts in "The Battle of San Romano" .

  6. Shades of red - Wikipedia

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    Vermilion (sometimes spelled vermillion) is both a brilliant red or scarlet pigment, originally made from the powdered mineral cinnabar (see § Cinnabar). It was widely used in the art and decoration of Ancient Rome, in the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, in the paintings of the Renaissance , as sindoor , an Indian cosmetic powder ...

  7. Mercury sulfide - Wikipedia

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    red cinnabar (α-HgS, trigonal, hP6, P3221) is the form in which mercury is most commonly found in nature. Cinnabar has rhombohedral crystal system. Crystals of red are optically active. This is caused by the Hg-S helices in the structure. [5] black metacinnabar (β-HgS) is less common in nature and adopts the zinc blende crystal structure (T 2 ...

  8. Chinese alchemical elixir poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Dān 丹 "cinnabar; vermillion; elixir; alchemy" is the keyword for Chinese immortality elixirs. The red mineral cinnabar (dānshā 丹砂 lit. "cinnabar sand") was anciently used to produce the pigment vermilion (zhūhóng 朱紅) and the element mercury (shuǐyín 水銀 "watery silver" or gǒng 汞). [2]

  9. List of alchemical substances - Wikipedia

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    Cinnabar/vermilion – refers to several substances, among them: mercury(II) sulfide (HgS), or native vermilion (the common ore of mercury). Copper Glance – copper(I) sulfide ore. Cuprite – copper(I) oxide ore. Dutch White – a pigment, formed from one part of white lead to three of barium sulfate. BaSO 4