cinnabar

cinnabar
cinnabarine /sin"euh beuh reen', -beuhr in, -bahr'uyn, -een/, cinnabaric /sin'euh bar"ik/, adj.
/sin"euh bahr'/, n.
1. a mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS, occurring in red crystals or masses: the principal ore of mercury.
2. red mercuric sulfide, used as a pigment.
3. bright red; vermillion.
[1350-1400; < L cinnabaris < Gk kinnábari < ?; r. ME cynoper < ML, L as above]

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Mercury sulfide (HgS), the chief ore mineral of mercury.

It is commonly encountered with pyrite, marcasite, and stibnite in veins near recent volcanic rocks and in hot-springs deposits. It has been used as a bright orange-red pigment in stage makeup (now known to be toxic), painting, and Chinese lacquerwork.

Cinnabar from Red Devil Mine, north of Homer, Alaska

By courtesy of the MacFall Collection; photograph, Mary A. Root

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 mercury sulfide (HgS), the chief ore mineral of mercury. It is commonly encountered with pyrite, marcasite, and stibnite in veins near recent volcanic rocks and in hot-springs deposits. The most important deposit is at Almadén, Spain, where it has been mined for 2,000 years. Other deposits are in Huancavelica, Peru; Iudrio, Italy; and the Coast Ranges of California, U.S. Metacinnabar, the isometric (cubic) form of cinnabar, transforms to cinnabar upon heating to 400°–550° C (750°–1,020° F). For detailed physical properties, see sulfide mineral (table).

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