Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Protoxid of lead, or yellow oxid of lead, PbO.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Lead monoxide (also called
Lead protoxide ), PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is calledlitharge ; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment. It is also calledlead oxide yellow , as opposed tored lead , which is lead tetroxide Pb3O4.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry
lead monoxide , PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is calledlitharge ; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment; also, lead oxide yellow, as opposed tored lead , which is lead tetroxide Pb3O4.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the mineral form of lead monoxide; in the form of yellow powder it is used as a pigment
Etymologies
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Examples
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Several, including massicot or giallolino, purple of Cassius reference, and Drebbel's red, predated the epoch.
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Parlant de mon massicot, je vais le ramener — il croche beaucoup trop quand on coupe et du coup, il coupe pas 100% droit-lisse…
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Parlant de mon massicot, je vais le ramener — il croche beaucoup trop quand on coupe et du coup, il coupe pas 100% droit-lisse…
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Ton coupe-papier guillotine sans guillotine s'appelle un “massicot”.
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It is an oxide of uncertain composition, prepared by subjecting massicot to the heat of
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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_Orange Lead_, of a dull orange colour, is an orange protoxide of lead or massicot.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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This is procured by mixing massicot, or Naples yellow, with a small quantity of realgar, and a very little Spanish white.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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A wooden door was now put up, and the baking was left to itself for about twenty-four hours, at the end of which time the lead would have become transformed into a yellowish powder, known as massicot.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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Upon all vegetable lakes, except those of madder, they have a destructive effect; and are injurious to gamboge, as well as to those almost obsolete pigments, red and orange leads, king's and patent yellow, massicot, and orpiment.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Mr. Gummage immediately supplied her with two bristle brushes, and sundry little shallow earthen cups, each containing a modicum of some sort of body color, massicot, flake-white, etc., prepared by himself and charged at a quarter of a dollar apiece, and which he told her she would want when she came to do landscapes and figures.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Various 1887
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