| When he was only 15, an immortal taught him the art of refining cinnabar into a medicine that was said to cure all illnesses. |
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| The Greek philosopher Theophrastus described a method for preparing mercury by rubbing cinnabar with vinegar in a clay dish. |
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| Some of the oldest focus not on gold but on cinnabar, the red mineral mercury sulphide. |
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| In the 5th century B.C., Asian artists discovered that the mineral cinnabar produced a stable, vivid red. |
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| The Taoist quest for longevity, begun in earlier times, persisted with research and experimentation in the consumption of cinnabar. |
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| Cayenne pepper, which easily loses its red colour, was tinted with cinnabar, an extremely poisonous mercury compound. |
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| Mercury is a persistent heavy metal, processed into a liquid from mined cinnabar. |
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| This is when the first texts for obtaining mercury from its ore cinnabar appear. |
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| Striking jewellery from these Toronto designers includes materials like black jade, amber and cinnabar. |
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| The thick curly mass of her cinnabar hair hung heavily, almost to her waist when wet. |
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| In the 16 paintings in this show, Shinoda uses black sumi and cinnabar inks in asymmetrical compositions that balance empty space. |
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| The ocher yellow and cinnabar red walls suggest Morocco, while the citrus and grapevines in containers evoke Italy. |
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| Ragwort supports the life cycle of a multitude of creatures, most notably the cinnabar moth. |
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| Ragwort is the food plant for more than 70 species of insects, most notably the cinnabar moth. |
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| The ocher yellow and cinnabar red walls, on the other hand, suggest Morocco, while the citrus and grapevines in containers evoke Italy. |
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| The white plaster dust had been washed out of his hair and now his rich cinnabar mane shone. |
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| It is still possible to buy smears of cinnabar in the town of Huancavelica, located at 1,000 meters below the mine. |
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| The trail once led from the cinnabar or quicksilver mines of Mount St Helena to the port of San Pablo. |
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| Allergy to tattoo pigment is rare, but reaction to cinnabar, the red pigment, is the most common. |
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| The mineraloid is usually found in the ore cinnabar, where it must go through a heating and condensing process to be obtained. |
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| The data obtained can be used as a reference for controlling soluble mercury contents in Chinese traditional patent medicines containing cinnabar. |
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| In the absence of mercury mining activities in the Community, there is no need for an export ban on cinnabar ore. |
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| Red cinnabar had been sprinkled over the body and grave goods. |
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| This collection has a strong energetic color palette such as plum, cinnabar and antique and soft natural colors of lambskin, moonbeam and almond. |
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| The places cinnabar and calomel can be mined in the world are as follows. |
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| Outside the EU, the main countries that produce mercury from cinnabar are Kyrgyzstan, Algeria and China. |
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| The yellow is paired with a brilliant, beautiful cinnabar red. |
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| There was cinnabar, the heavy red sulfide of mercury, and massicot and minium, the twin oxides of lead. |
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| Only Almaden cinnabar mining continues with opportunities in Puertollano and better quality seams have been exhausted. |
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| The cinnabar deposits in Slovenia are a notable source of cinnabar pigments. |
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| Ragusa was the door to the Balkans and the East, a place of commerce in metals, salt, spices and cinnabar. |
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| Silver, cinnabar, and coal are mined nearby. |
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| Mercury is a naturally occurring element found in the Earth's crust, with natural deposits generally found as a vermilion red ore called cinnabar. |
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| There will still be plenty left for the cinnabar moth caterpillar which feeds on the leaves. |
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| By the 1980s, golden tansy ragwort flea beetles, cinnabar moths and seed head flies had largely decimated the weed's Western Oregon population. |
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| At Neston he saw the caterpillars of oak eggar and drinker moths, while newly emerged cinnabar moths were on the seawall at Leasowe. |
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| The British Entomological Society is surveying bumblebees, cinnabar moths, and glow-worms. |
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| The pigments included cinnabar, chromium green and lazurite — a blue-green copper compound — as well as tin-lead yellow, which artists stopped using after the 19th century because of toxicity. |
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| Because most cinnabar as mined contains less than 1 percent mercury, various mineral-processing methods, such as jigging, shaking, screening, elutriation, and flotation, have been practiced to concentrate the ore. |
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| On some honeysuckle near the veranda, I had happened to see a Swallowtail — a splendid, pale-yellow creature with black blotches and blue crenulations, and a cinnabar eyespot above each chrome-rimmed black tail. |
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| For instance, the bright-red paint used to depict flowers and birds' plumages was a common pigment from that era called cinnabar. |
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| Accompanying heavy minerals commonly include variable quantities of monazite, magnetite, ilmenite, cassiterite, wolframite, scheelite, cinnabar, and platinoid minerals. |
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| The principal ore is the red sulfide, cinnabar. |
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| The most important of these is a ban on exports extended to cover not only metallic mercury, but also cinnabar ore and two common compounds of mercury, mercuric chloride and mercuric oxide. |
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| Member States shall draw up a register of buyers, sellers and traders of mercury, cinnabar ore and mercury compounds, and collect relevant information. |
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| Crystals are found throughout much of the Alpine region such as cinnabar, amethyst, and quartz. |
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| The seals of the Han dynasty were impressed in a soft clay, but from the Tang dynasty a red ink made from cinnabar was normally used. |
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| Outcrops of silica sinter and silica replacement bodies with widespread cinnabar mineralization hosted by Tertiary volcanic rocks occur on the property. |
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| Akashi used a Chinese seal with the symbols that depict 'Freedom' and firmly opted to use black cinnabar paste to honor the South African hero's struggle against apartheid. |
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| The main ore of mercury is cinnabar, long used as a pigment by painters. |
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