| 单词 | yellow lead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow lead 2. red lead: a red oxide of lead obtained from litharge by exposing it to hot air, much used as a pigment; = minium n. white lead (or simply lead): a mixture of lead carbonate and hydrated lead oxide, much used as a pigment; = ceruse n. yellow lead: (see quot.). blue lead: see blue lead n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > red lead red leadc1450 minium1601 minion1621 litharge1683 the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > lead > [noun] > compounds > others litharge of goldc1400 red leadc1450 tetraethyl lead1923 plumbane1950 c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 203 Tak..iij quarter of whyt led Tak a quart of oile and red led. 1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 54 Most excellent pure Virgin Colours are Ceruse and White leade. 1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 27 Red-lead, a colour unknown to the Antients. 1727 J. Swift Progress of Beauty in Misc. Last vol. ii. 250 White Lead was sent us to repair..A Lady's Face, and China-Ware. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The common calx of lead, red lead. 1827 R. Nesbit in J. M. Mitchell Mem. R. Nesbit (1858) iii. 80 It [the idol] was painted with red lead. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 747 Lead ores... 12. Yellow lead. Molybdate of lead. 1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 294 Red oxide; red lead. 1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 295 Carbonate of lead; white lead. < as lemmas |
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