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Definition of Sandarach
1. Noun. A brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes.
Substance meronyms: Callitris Quadrivalvis, Sandarac, Sandarac Tree, Tetraclinis Articulata
Generic synonyms: Natural Resin
Definition of Sandarach
1. n. Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandarach
Literary usage of Sandarach
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
""We have already mentioned nearly all the properties of sandarach.31 It is found
hoth in gold-mines and in silver- mines. The redder it is, the more pure ..."
2. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"It is much more serviceable than the natural sandarach dug up in mines.
CHAPTER PURPLE 1. I SHALL now begin to speak of purple, which exceeds all the ..."
3. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER XII WHITE LEAD, VERDIGRIS, AND ARTIFICIAL sandarach 1 ... It is much more
serviceable than the natural sandarach dug up in mines. ..."
4. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"White lead on being heated in an oven changes its colour on the fire, and becomes
sandarach. This was discovered as the result of an accidental fire. ..."
5. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"sandarach is a dry and hard resin, usually met with in transparent granules of
the size of a pea. When good, it is of a bright yellow colour, ..."
6. Notes on Building Construction by Henry Fidler, Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1879)
"sandarach is a substance said to exude from the juniper tree. It resembles lac,
but is softer, ... METHYLATED SPIRITS OF WINE ' for lac and sandarach. ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"sandarach ; a gum resin, which oozes spontaneously from the old trunks of the
common juniper (juniperus communie), and which is used in considerable ..."
8. Principles of Organic and Physiological Chemistry by Carl Löwig (1853)
"... sandarach is procured in warm countries from Juniperus communis. Appears in
small, pale-yellow, transparent, hard, and brittle corns of bitter, ..."
9. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
""We have already mentioned nearly all the properties of sandarach.31 It is found
hoth in gold-mines and in silver- mines. The redder it is, the more pure ..."
10. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"It is much more serviceable than the natural sandarach dug up in mines.
CHAPTER PURPLE 1. I SHALL now begin to speak of purple, which exceeds all the ..."
11. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER XII WHITE LEAD, VERDIGRIS, AND ARTIFICIAL sandarach 1 ... It is much more
serviceable than the natural sandarach dug up in mines. ..."
12. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"White lead on being heated in an oven changes its colour on the fire, and becomes
sandarach. This was discovered as the result of an accidental fire. ..."
13. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"sandarach is a dry and hard resin, usually met with in transparent granules of
the size of a pea. When good, it is of a bright yellow colour, ..."
14. Notes on Building Construction by Henry Fidler, Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1879)
"sandarach is a substance said to exude from the juniper tree. It resembles lac,
but is softer, ... METHYLATED SPIRITS OF WINE ' for lac and sandarach. ..."
15. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"sandarach ; a gum resin, which oozes spontaneously from the old trunks of the
common juniper (juniperus communie), and which is used in considerable ..."
16. Principles of Organic and Physiological Chemistry by Carl Löwig (1853)
"... sandarach is procured in warm countries from Juniperus communis. Appears in
small, pale-yellow, transparent, hard, and brittle corns of bitter, ..."
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