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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: minium
minium
n : a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints
and in glass and ceramics [syn:
red lead]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: minium
minium
\min"i*um\ (?; 277), n. [L. minium, an Iberian word, the
Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque
armine['a].] (Chem.)
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.
[1913 Webster]
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