Minium

Minium wage can't even pay rent on a one bedroom apartment.

Obama subs for Kennedy at commencement 2008

Minium bid is only $10.00, and the buy it now is $65.00.

December 13th, 2008 helpvera 2008

I suppose the cause of that redish colour is occasioned as follows: the Minium assists in some manner to calcine the copper yet further than in was before & uniting together produces that effect so I think no minium shall be used with Copper in any form whatever.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Minium is prepared by heating lead (or litharge) to a high temperature in the air.

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

Minium, red oxide of lead, red lead, was called by the Romans cerussa usta, and, according to Vitruvius, sandaracha.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Minium sometimes leans to orange; and there is made from ceruse a peculiar red, _Mineral Orange_.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

_Minium_, or _Saturnine Red_, is an ancient pigment, by some old writers confounded with cinnabar, and termed Sinoper or Synoper.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

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.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

And therefore Minium reflecteth rays of any color, but most copiously those indued with red; and consequently, when illustrated with daylight -- that is, with all sorts of rays promiscuously blended -- those qualified with red shall abound most in the reflected light, and by their prevalence cause it to appear of that color.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

_Minoes_, so called either for their littleness, or (as Dr. Cajus imagined) because their fins be of so lively a red, as if they were died with the true Cinnabre-lake called _Minium_: They are less than Loches, feeding upon nothing, but licking one another ... they are

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867