Pathologically considered, the use of perfumes is in the highest degree prophylactic; the refreshing qualities of the citrine odors to an invalid is well known.
In these preparations, as also in Eau de Portugal, and in fact where any of the citrine ottos are used, a much finer product is obtained by using grape spirit or brandy in preference to the English corn spirit as a solvent for them.
It is best when sold fresh made, as by age the citrine oils oxidize, and the perfume acquires an ethereal odor, and then customers say "it is sour.
Citrine Ointment; locally, alone or with tar ointment, in eczema of the eyelids.
Mercury: as citrine ointment, very useful outside the lids in palpebral conjunctivitis.
The tar or citrine ointments may be applied to the eruptions and cutaneous ulcers.
Citrine ointment and oil of almonds, of each 1 dr.
In ophthalmia and opacity of the cornea, either alone or combined with a little citrine ointment; as a friction or dressing for scrofulous indurations and sores; in rheumatism, stiff joints, and in several skin diseases.
The principal quartz gems are, of course, amethyst and citrine quartz (the stone that is almost universally called topaz in the trade).
On remarking that they were of course citrine quartz rather than true topaz, the author was met with the statement that the brooch stones were real topaz.
Citrine quartz" is probably the best name for this material.
Of course the yellow quartz should be sold under the proper name, citrine quartz.
In addition to amethyst and citrine quartz we have the pinkish, milky quartz known as "rose quartz.
True citrine is, however, transparent quartz with a natural yellow color.
By partial heating the color is changed to yellow, and much so-called citrine is simply burned amethyst.
For citrine being an immediate compound of the secondaries, orange and green, of both which yellow is a constituent, the latter colour is of double occurrence therein, while the other two primaries enter singly into its composition.
If this be the case, the citrine cast of the brown oxide is easily explained, as well as the gradual addition to its green by the deoxidation of the chromic acid.
As autumn advances, citrine tends towards its orange hues, including the colours termed aurora, chamoise, and others before enumerated under the head of yellow.
What has been remarked in the preceding chapter upon the production of mixed citrine colours, is likewise applicable to mixed russet.
A citrine brown of great service in tender drab greens, it forms with terre verte and the madder lakes rich autumnal tints of much beauty and permanence.
Besides the preceding, there are those browns of a citrine or russet cast which are elsewhere described, such as raw umber, madder brown, &c.
The excess of soda or potash employed imparts a brown hue; but the lake being in general an orange broken by green, falls into the class of citrine colours, sometimes inclining to greenness, and sometimes towards the warmth of orange.
The inclination to green which the citrine under notice possesses, may be seen by washing the precipitate with boiling water.
A term used in the Brewster theory to denote three classes of colors called russet, citrine and olive, made by mixing the secondaries in pairs.
The wall spaces adjoining the citrine wall space of the hall treatment are green, slate and violet.
For composition purposes, however, citrine and violet may be considered contrasts, or correctly speaking, contrast analogies.
The citrine and the plum, however, are approximate contrasts.
The green is more stable, but that also has in many instances become a warm citrine or russet.
The lamp in the chief engineer's cabin had paled from saffron to citrine in the morning light when the officers of the Moung Poh took stock of themselves once more, and of each other and an ill prospect.
We also see that purple andcitrine harmonise, and green and russet, and orange and olive.
Thus, in citrine we find two equivalents of yellow, and one each of red and blue; hence it is the yellow tertiary.
In the light ornament on the citrine ground (that at the lower left-hand corner of our plate) I have endeavoured especially to secure an expression of grace in combination with that amount of energy which avoids any expression of feebleness.
Let us now refer to our second diagrammatic table, and we there see that citrine is formed of two equivalents of yellow and only one equivalent of red and of blue.
Thus, we might have a shade or a tint ofcitrine spreading over a large surface as a ground on which we wished to place a figure.
