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Definition of realgar in English: realgarnoun rɪˈalɡə mass nounA soft reddish mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide, formerly used as a pigment and in fireworks. Example sentencesExamples - Other minerals associated with the orpiment crystals are white to colorless barite crystals, lemon-yellow crystalline masses of sulfur, and minor realgar.
- Orpiment is a lesser mineral associated with realgar and lead sulfosalts in dolomite at Binnental, Valais, Switzerland.
- The next morning we drove west to the famous town of Shimen, the locality for all the superb realgar and orpiment crystals.
- It is an alteration product of realgar, native arsenic, and, less commonly, arsenopyrite.
- Even the arsenic mine at Shimen, Hunan Province, is still the source of minor amounts of good realgar, orpiment, and calcite.
- Orpiment and realgar are yellow and orange mineral species of arsenic sulphide, used in 16th-century Venetian painting particularly, but at various other times also.
- Unfortunately, however, many orpiment localities also contain abundant to trace realgar, sometimes intimately intergrown with the orpiment, leading to overall specimen stability problems.
- A number of relatively minor yet interesting California realgar localities are given by Murdoch and Webb.
- The specimen was a classic Lengenbach assemblage: sugary white dolomite matrix, realgar, minor pyrite, and a massive metallic gray sulfosalt that had been labeled as ‘sartorite.’
- Small amounts of realgar have been reported from a large number of European occurrences, generally related to relatively recent volcanism, limestone or dolomite quarries, or base- and precious-metal deposits.
Origin Late Middle English: via medieval Latin from Arabic rahj al-ġār 'arsenic', literally 'dust of the cave'. Definition of realgar in US English: realgarnoun A soft reddish mineral consisting of arsenic sulfide, formerly used as a pigment and in fireworks. Example sentencesExamples - The next morning we drove west to the famous town of Shimen, the locality for all the superb realgar and orpiment crystals.
- Unfortunately, however, many orpiment localities also contain abundant to trace realgar, sometimes intimately intergrown with the orpiment, leading to overall specimen stability problems.
- Orpiment is a lesser mineral associated with realgar and lead sulfosalts in dolomite at Binnental, Valais, Switzerland.
- Even the arsenic mine at Shimen, Hunan Province, is still the source of minor amounts of good realgar, orpiment, and calcite.
- The specimen was a classic Lengenbach assemblage: sugary white dolomite matrix, realgar, minor pyrite, and a massive metallic gray sulfosalt that had been labeled as ‘sartorite.’
- Other minerals associated with the orpiment crystals are white to colorless barite crystals, lemon-yellow crystalline masses of sulfur, and minor realgar.
- Orpiment and realgar are yellow and orange mineral species of arsenic sulphide, used in 16th-century Venetian painting particularly, but at various other times also.
- Small amounts of realgar have been reported from a large number of European occurrences, generally related to relatively recent volcanism, limestone or dolomite quarries, or base- and precious-metal deposits.
- A number of relatively minor yet interesting California realgar localities are given by Murdoch and Webb.
- It is an alteration product of realgar, native arsenic, and, less commonly, arsenopyrite.
Origin Late Middle English: via medieval Latin from Arabic rahj al-ġār ‘arsenic’, literally ‘dust of the cave’. |