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cinnabar (pigment) (inorganic red pigment, red pigment, ... Materials (hierarchy name)) |
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Note: Pigment made from the mineral cinnabar, composed of mercuric sulfide. Cinnabar was finely ground for use as an artist pigment since antiquity. Red mercuric sulfide has been made synthetically since at least the 8th century in Europe and possibly earlier in China. Synthetic mercuric sulfide is called vermilion, favored over ground cinnabar as a red pigment because cinnabar, when exposed to ultraviolet light, darkens from its normal red crystalline form to a black isomorph, resulting in splotchy discolorations. |
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cinnabar (pigment) (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,N)
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cenobrium (pigment) (C,U,English,UF,U,N)
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natural vermilion (pigment) (C,U,English,UF,U,N)
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cinabre (pigment) (C,U,French-P,D,U,N)
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cinabrio (pigmento) (C,U,Spanish-P,D,U,N)
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cinabro (pigmento) (C,U,Italian-P,D,U,N)
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cinĂ¡brio (pigmento) (C,U,Portuguese-P,UF,U,N)
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cinnaber (kleurstof) (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)
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Zinnober (Pigment) (C,U,German-P,D,U,N)
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Zinnoberersatz (Pigment) (C,U,German,UF,U,N)
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tan-sha (pigment) (C,U,Chinese (transliterated)-P,D,U,N)
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shinsha (pigment) (C,U,Japanese (transliterated)-P,D,U,N)
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minium (cinnabar pigment) (H,U,English,UF,U,N)
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............ | name used from antiquity through the 17th century, used to refer to cinnabar and vermilion |
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.................................... cinnabar (pigment) (G) |
Related concepts: |
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derived/made from .... |
cinnabar (mineral) |
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(mineral, inorganic material, ... Materials (hierarchy name)) [300311452] |
derived/made from .... |
mercuric sulfide |
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(mineral, inorganic material, ... Materials (hierarchy name)) [300444023] |
meaning/usage overlaps with .... |
Chinese red |
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(inorganic red pigment, red pigment, ... Materials (hierarchy name)) [300311451] |
meaning/usage overlaps with .... |
vermilion (pigment) |
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(inorganic red pigment, red pigment, ... Materials (hierarchy name)) [300013568] |
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cinnaber (kleurstof)............ |
[VP] |
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AAT-Ned (1994-) added from spreadsheet from AAT-Ned |
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