It forms part of a soft, red rock called cinnabar, composed of mercury and sulphur. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
The ore known as cinnabar is of a dark-red colour, and gives a beautiful appearance to the galleries. From Wordnik.com. [The Mines and its Wonders] Reference
One is a recessive mutation that produces flies with cinnabar coloured eyes It is called the cinnabar mutant. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Basalt with cinnabar and gypsum crystals mixed in. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
It is made of shellac, Venice turpentine and cinnabar. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
I shall now proceed to explain the nature of cinnabar. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Mercury is found in natural deposits of cinnabar (HgS). From Wordnik.com. [Mercury in the Great Lakes] Reference
I have now said all that I could think of about cinnabar. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Her mouth was as red as cinnabar and her eyelids painted jade. From Wordnik.com. [The Speaker Of Mandarin]
Mercury is mined as cinnabar ore, which contains mercuric sulfide. From Wordnik.com. [Mercury] Reference
Native mercury is found in association with its ore mineral, cinnabar. From Wordnik.com. [Mercury (element)] Reference
There is a record from 133 B.C.E. of an effort to turn cinnabar into gold. From Wordnik.com. [105] Reference
If old, a cinnabar-red streak is seen on drawing a needle across the stain. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
What I finally found was some outcroppings veined with high-grade cinnabar. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall] Reference
Sulfur now, or antimony, or cinnabar; those the general store stocks in bulk. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
Boohte's got as many oxides as Mars, and lots of cinnabar, so the plains are pink. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
Hung details the preparation of “sublime” cinnabar which can cause immortality. From Wordnik.com. [LONGEVITY] Reference
Three Specie Glasses, with brass caps; one contained two pounds of native cinnabar. From Wordnik.com. [Drug Supplies in the American Revolution] Reference
This caused the country where they lived to be examined, and the cinnabar was found. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
The board is inlaid ebony and teak; the red men are cinnabar and the black men are jet. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Sang For The Birds]
There were trunks of trees smeared with cinnabar, which resembled columns covered with blood. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
The greater part of its plumage was of an intense cinnabar red, with a gloss as of spun glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
Take an iron plate, put the cinnabar upon it, and lay it on the fire until the plate gets red hot. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
And the many cinnabar-colored needles which jutted along the canyon would have screened off a shot. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
Europe had bees-wax tempered with Venice turpentine and coloured with cinnabar or similar material. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
He pauses before the towering cinnabar escarpment of the western gate and turns in his dusty saddle. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
Suppose you wish to find a color described as 2 parts cinnabar, 1 part ocher, 3 parts Prussian blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
All the way down from Big Sur they came, wings of cinnabar velvet, butterflies in flocks like birds made of petals. From Wordnik.com. [Put On By Cunning]
As he freed himself from his harness and slid to the ground, he asked the handler, "How's the cinnabar holding out?". From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
The light gleamed on his skin, dark, with a reddish undertone that made him look as though carved from aged cinnabar. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
The remarkable centerpiece of the room was a beautiful, cinnabar-red spice rack that had been mounted above the stove. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Trouble]
South beyond the Wolter River lay the Mamming Hills, full of the cinnabar that made dragonfire burn so hot and fierce. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
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