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Neither vermilion nor gamboge is reliably permanent. 16 The practical value of the triangles would be limited if the materials used to construct it were incompatible or otherwise unstable. reference Finally, although it is unlikely that this was deliberate, Mayer's use of nonperfect colors in mixtures has the effect of emphasizing his point that nearly any coloring material could be adapted to his techniques of color composition and identification. reference

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

-- A fatty matter known as gamboge butter is procured from the seeds of this tree in Mysore.

Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861

The gamboge is the juice of the tree obtained by incisions in the bark.

Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

In opacity it never equals white lead, and might perhaps serve advantageously as a glaze over that pigment, either alone or compounded with other colours; as well as act as a medium of interposition between white lead and those colours which are injured by it, such as gamboge, crimson lake, &c.

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

I found it next to "gamboge," and I can now tell you all about it.

If I May 1919

The fruit and the trunk of both species, when cut, exude a gum-resin very much like gamboge which is obtained from the _G. morella_ or _G. pedicellata_, Desr.

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

A heavy piece of gamboge-colored iron, it was the size of a large cabbage but flat, less than an inch thick.

Petrol Queen snippet marshallpayne1 2010

The green of verdigris was not perfectly imitated by combining indigo with yellow berries, or Prussian blue with gamboge.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

On the other hand, if you want to lean on the taffrail of your ketch and regard the magnificent melancholy sunset of Sirius from the Draschade Ocean, with the rose, cerise and gamboge light playing across the waters, while sipping a Rum Toddy, any world of his would be just the place to do it.

Reader Challenge #5B - The Coolest Science Fiction Setting (TV/Film) 2006

In contrast the malachite, a medium or jade green, is the lighter of the two greens used here, and the darker green is a combination of Prussian blue and gamboge.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

The chief ingredient was gamboge, a powerful laxative and diuretic derived from the sap of deciduous trees found primarily in Cambodia.

Gamboge, A Sunny Yellow with a Deadly Past Katy Kelleher 2023

Gamboge is more than just another example of pharmacological greed gone mad; it’s a sunny yellow, a translucent hue as light and golden as early fall aspen leaves—or the undiluted urine of a fairly healthy person.

Gamboge, A Sunny Yellow with a Deadly Past Katy Kelleher 2023

According to the British paint manufacturer Winsor & Newton, gamboge has gone by several other names, including rattan, wisteria yellow, gummi gatti, and drop gum.

Gamboge, A Sunny Yellow with a Deadly Past Katy Kelleher 2023