Vermilion: alternatives and connections

The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color.

A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…

A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains so…

One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear s…

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead.

A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wh…

To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful.

A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and stai…

Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster.

Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.

A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained…

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of…

Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional…

To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.

ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form

Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.