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What does orpiment mean?

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Noun
  1. arsenic trisulphide, occurring naturally in crystals or massive deposits, formerly used as a dye or pigment
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For example, it seems to have been used as a medium for vermilion and orpiment.
Both realgar and orpiment were important for pigments, medicinal purposes, and poisons among the Ancients.
He accordingly mixed one part of red lead, four parts of blue bice, and a proper proportion of orpiment and verdigris.
It is now superseded as a pigment by chrome yellow and orpiment, which are not only more beautiful, but cheaper preparations.
Commonly associated minerals include orpiment, stibnite, a variety of sulfides and sulfosalts, calcite, and barite.
Massicot and orpiment, he considers as those which have been the least permanent amongst all the mineral colours.

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