Minium

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  • noun. Red lead.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Red oxid of lead, Pb3O4, produced by maintaining the protoxid (litharge) at a low-red heat for some time in presence of air. It is a bright-orange granular powder, used as a pigment and in the manufacture of flint-glass. See vermilion
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead, lead tetroxide, lead orthoplumbate, mineral orange, mineral red, Paris red, Saturn red, and less definitively, lead oxide.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics
  • Word Usage
    "That same Cyprian reflex would remain *minyu in Etruscan to yield Latin minium which is self-explanatory."
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