| 单词 | red arsenic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred arsenic b. More fully red arsenic. A sulphide of arsenic, AsS, occurring as a mineral in soft red masses and formerly used as a pigment and in medicines. Now chiefly historical.In mineral form also called realgar (see realgar n.), red orpiment, ruby sulphur. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > realgar realgara1400 resalgarc1405 arsenic?a1425 rosakerc1430 sandarac?1550 risagallum1565 resegall1610 zarnich1612 ruby of ——1678 red mundic1748 ruby sulphur1753 ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 149, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Red Take rede arsenek. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Sandaracha, a bright redde colour vsed of peinters..: some call it redde Arsenike. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Rejalgar Poison, arsenicke, or ratsebane. 1748 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. I. 405 The Authors who have made the distinctions between red Arsenic..and Sandarach. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 54 The improper name of yellow and red arsenic, or orpiment and realgar. 1995 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 115 80/1 To protect the manuscripts from insects, they were..sometimes dusted with red arsenic powder. 2005 L. Kassell Med. & Magic in Elizabethan London (2007) ii. v. 107 In 1564 he learnt how to make a plaster of red arsenic to place above the heart. red arsenic red arsenic n. see arsenic n. 1b. < as lemmas |
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