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n. - A rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Mix together realgar and orpiment; some object to this mixture on account of the poisonous nature of the ingredients.
  • Several other, less-common minerals contain arsenic, including orpiment, realgar, and enargite, which are arsenic sulfides.
  • Such are the kinds of stones that cannot be melted, and realgar, and ochre, and ruddle, and sulphur, and the other things of that kind, most
  • Take of nitrate of baryta, twenty-seven parts, by weight; of sulphur, thirteen; of chloride of potassa, five; of realgar, two; and of charcoal three parts.
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