单词 | yellow arsenic |
释义 | yellow arsenicn. Chemistry. 1. Arsenic trisulphide; = arsenic n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > arsenic > [noun] > compounds arsenic?a1425 yellow arsenic1598 arsenic glass1738 arsenious oxide1809 arsenicane1812 arseniuret1813 arsenide1830 sulpharsenite1859 trimethyl-arsine1866 hydrogen arsenide1868 sperrylite1889 1598 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Praxis Med. Vniuersalis iv. ii. 526 Others do go somewhat rougher to worke with it, and do take yellow Arsenicke [Ger. gelben Hütrauch], (which is Orpiment) Copperas, and Allum, of each a like quantitie, and temper it vnto a salue with honie, and annoynt it therewith. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 235 Arsenicum Croceum, Auripigmentum (ab aureo colore) dictum; Orpment, or yellow Arsenick. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rubifying Red Arsenic is supposed to be no more than the common yellow Arsenick rubified by Fire. 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. ii. 102 Take one part of yellow arsenic, and one part of copper, and melt and granulate. 1865 A. S. Taylor Princ. & Pract. Med. Jurispr. xviii. 221 Whether the confectioner might not have used yellow arsenic by mistake in order to give a colour. 1901 Agric. Ledger 8 339 The red colour is produced by adding cinnabar and vermilion..; green by adding a mixture of yellow arsenic and indigo blue. 2009 R. L. Smith Premodern Trade in World Hist. v. 54 Other amphorae contained glass beads and orpiment, a yellow arsenic that could be used as a pigment or mixed with beeswax to make writing material. 2. An allotrope of arsenic which is a soft, waxy, yellow solid. Cf. grey arsenic n. at grey adj. and n. Compounds 1c(a). ΚΠ 1903 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 84 ii. 73 There is no tendency for the dissolved yellow arsenic to change into the metallic modification. 1912 J. W. Mellor Mod. Inorg. Chem. xxxii. 604 The yellow variety, called α-arsenic or yellow arsenic, is formed by the rapid condensation of arsenic vapour. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xlii. 412 Yellow arsenic is obtained by cooling arsenic vapour, which is also yellow, very rapidly, e.g. with liquid air. 2007 C. Cooper Arsenic 7/1 Yellow arsenic is chemically the same as gray arsenic, but it is much less dense. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmasyellow arsenic a. Μοre fully yellow arsenic: see yellow arsenic n. 1. Arsenic trisulphide, As2S3, a bright yellow solid obtained as a mineral and formerly used as a dye or artist's pigment. Now chiefly historical.In mineral form also called orpiment (see orpiment n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > orpiment arsenica1393 orpimentc1395 auripigmenta1398 orpine1548 golden earth1555 zarnich1612 the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments yelloweOE motey1353 arsenica1393 orpimentc1395 auripigmenta1398 ochre1440 pink1464 massicot1472 yellow ochre1482 orpine1548 painter's gold1591 spruce1668 giallolino1728 king's yellow1738 Naples yellow1738 stil de grain1769 yellow earth1794 queen's yellow1806 chromate1819 chrome yellow1819 Oxford ochre1827 Indian yellow1831 Italian pink1835 Montpellier yellow1835 Turner1835 quercitron lake1837 jaune brillant1851 zinc chromate1851 zinc sulphide1851 brush-gold1861 zooxanthin1868 Oxford chrome1875 aureolin1879 cadmium yellow1879 Cassel yellow1882 Neapolitan yellow1891 zinc chrome1892 Mars1899 jaune jonquille1910 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2483 (MED) The thridde spirit Sulphur is; The ferthe suiende after this Arcennicum be name is hote. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xxx. 1294 Arsenicum hatte auripigmentum for þe colour of gold, and is ygadered in Pontus. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 798 Arsenyk [c1410 Harl. 7334 arsnek, c1415 Lansd. arcenyk, c1415 Corpus Oxf. arsynek, c1425 Petworth arsenyke], sal Armonyak and Brymstoon. c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 121 (MED) Ther be put in medicynis pycche, wax, arsenyk, [etc.]. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 10 The stone Arsenick..which also they call the golden earth. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 521 As for Arsenicke..that which is best of this kind, resembleth burnished gold in colour. 1617 P. Holland tr. A. de Villa Nova in J. de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni 158 Auripigmentum which some Arsenicke call. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rubifying Red Arsenic is supposed to be no more than the common yellow Arsenick rubified by Fire. 1865 A. S. Taylor Princ. & Pract. Med. Jurispr. xviii. 221 Whether the confectioner might not have used yellow arsenic by mistake in order to give a colour. 2009 R. L. Smith Premodern Trade in World Hist. v. 54 Other amphorae contained glass beads and orpiment, a yellow arsenic that could be used as a pigment or mixed with beeswax to make writing material. < n.1598 as lemmas |
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