Red lead, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead.
Defn: Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.
Minium reflects the least refrangible or red-making Rays most copiously, and thence appears red.
When discoloured by heat it forms the 'brown minium plaster' (emp.
The acquired redness of theMinium indicating the addition of plenty of sulphur in the operation.
Perhaps the most interesting experiment made by Hales is the heating ofminium (red-lead) with the production of oxygen.
A species of wild grape thus called because it is red like minium (vermilion).
The exact nature of the meaning of minium in this connection is not altogether clear.
Paper should be tinged with vermilion or the best minium for the red square, and with deep indigo for the blue square.
From a yellow, that is very near to white, through orange, and the hue of minium to pure red and carmine, through all gradations of violet to the deepest blue which is almost identified with black, colour still increases in darkness.
After being roasted it is pulverized and is minium secundarium.
The term used by him for the mineral is minium nativum (Interpretatio,--bergzinober or cinnabaris).
Boil the linseed oil in an untinned copper vessel, and suspend in it the litharge and minium in a small bag, which must touch the bottom of the vessel.
Minium appeareth there of any color indifferently with which 'tis illustrated, but yet most luminous in red; and so Bise appeareth indifferently of any color with which 'tis illustrated, but yet most luminous in blue.
Minium is prepared by heating lead (or litharge) to a high temperature in the air.
You will temper minium and ceruse and carmine with clear of egg.
Spanish green was verdigris, and minium was red lead, while ceruse was white lead.
How Colours are Tempered for Books,” he says: “Make a mixture of the clearest gum and water as above, and temper all colours except green and ceruse and minium and carmine.
This is as follows: “Afterwards take pure minium and add to it a third part of cinnabar, grinding it upon a stone with water.
The detection of minium is conveniently executed in the dry way.
If minium is present, sulphide of lead remains as a residue, and may be recognised on coal; the same remark applies to sulphide of antimony.
The white they used consisted of white-lead; their reds were made either of red minium or of a root.
In color it ranged between minium and blue, and included every degree in the scale of purple shades.
The flux consists of borax, sand, and minium in small quantity.
If the lead contains either iron or copper, it affords a minium which cannot be employed with advantage in the manufacture of flint-glass, for pottery glazes, or for house-painting.
The base of enamel is a clear, colourless, transparent vitreous compound called flux, which is composed of silica, minium and potash.
This compound is a form of glass made of silica, miniumand potash, which is stained by the chemical combination of various metallic oxides whilst in a melted condition in the crucible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
