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A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium. (more info) vermilion, Gr.

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  • CALCINATION
    The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order
  • INFERIORLY
    In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
  • INFERIOR
    Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Inferior court , a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court. -- Inferior letter, Inferior figure , a small letter or figure standing at the
  • CALCINE
    Etym: 1. To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones. 2. To oxidize, as a metal
  • INFERIORITY
    The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
  • CARBONATED
    Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
  • CALCINER
    One who, or that which, calcines.
  • MINIUM
    A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead.
  • CARBONATE
    A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
  • VERMILION
    A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc. Note: The kermes insect has long been used for
  • CALCINABLE
    That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.
  • CALCINATE
    To calcine.
  • CALCINATORY
    A vessel used in calcination.
  • EKALUMINIUM
    The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.
  • DECARBONATE
    To deprive of carbonic acid.
  • SULPHOCARBONATE
    A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.
  • HYDROCARBONATE
    A hydrocarbon. A hydrous carbonate, as malachite.
  • SUPERCARBONATE
    A bicarbonate.
  • SUBCARBONATE
    A carbonate containing an excess of the basic constituent.
  • THIOCARBONATE
    A sulphocarbonate.

 

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