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Definition of Cinnabar

1. Noun. A heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury.

2. Adjective. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.

3. Noun. Large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort.

Definition of Cinnabar

1. n. Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

Definition of Cinnabar

1. Noun. A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion. ¹

2. Noun. A bright red colour tinted with orange. ¹

3. Adjective. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cinnabar

1. the principal ore of mercury [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinnabar

cingulate gyri cingulate gyruses cingulate herniation cingulate sulcus cingulectomy cingulin cingulotomies cingulotomy cingulum cingulum dentis

cingulum membri inferioris cingulum membri superioris cingulum of tooth cingulum rest cinnabar (current term) cinnabar chanterelle cinnabar moth cinnabarinate synthase cinnabarine cinnabars

cinnamaldehyde cinnamate cinnamates cinnamein cinnamene cinnamenes cinnamic cinnamic acid

Literary usage of Cinnabar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mining Magazine (1856)
"cinnabar IN SPAIN.* THE indications of cinnabar are very numerous in the carboniferous formation of the Asturias, ït occurs indifferently in ..."

2. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers., Gerard H. Matthes (1905)
"For more than 50 years the innumerable fragments of cinnabar disseminated in the detritic deposits which occupy a long belt of ground nur Abbadia San ..."

3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1852)
"When somewhat strongly heated, it gives off mercury, and afterwards sublimes in the form of cinnabar. (Berzelius, Lehrb.) Brande also (Quart. ..."

4. An Essay Towards a System of Mineralogy by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Gustav von Engeström (1788)
"Pure cinnabar, cinnabaris na- liva [a], This [a] Native cinnabar is of ... from native cinnabar, by mixing with it, after it was reduced into powder, ..."

5. A Manual of Practical Assaying by John Mitchell (1868)
"Assay for the Amount of cinnabar in an Ore.—The ore to be assayed is distilled, without addition, in a glass retort, and the sublimed cinnabar collected and ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"The argument made in this connection by the railway company would confine the term "mineral lands" to lands bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper, ..."

7. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Andrew Miller (1873)
"It is decomposed by nitric acid ; and if the dry sulphide be sublimed, it is converted into cinnabar and metallic mercury. (920) Sulphide of Mercury, ..."

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