Crystals and gemstones can be more than just beautiful—they can be deadly. Minerals like arsenopyrite, cinnabar, galena, and ...
Orpiment yellow, which in the case of Mustang may have come largely from hot springs in eastern Tibet, is a trisulfide of arsenic, while the less intense yellow ochre, used primarily as an ...
Xi’an, Tibet, Mongolia. They suggest the fabled and the fabulous: Xanadu, Shangri-La. For travellers, the so-called “Stans”, ...
Xi’an, Tibet, Mongolia. They suggest the fabled and the fabulous: Xanadu, Shangri-La. For travellers, the so-called “Stans”, ...
From the various sorts of arsenic, the white arsenic, or ratsbane, is mostly taken, less so the commercial yellow, and still less the natural red arsenic, or orpiment. The arsenic eaters begin ...
In their new book, Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge explore the origins of colors found rocks, animals, plants, and even space—including these 10 historical pigments with surprising backstories.
Arsenic gets its name from a Persian word for the yellow pigment now known as orpiment. For keen lexicographers apparently the Persian word in question Zarnikh was subsequently borrowed by the Greeks ...
Examples are: Songling Taiping aphrodisiac wine, longevity wine, medicinal wine for old people, Zhuangyuan wine to stimulate the spleen and kidneys, realgar (red orpiment) wine, rose extract ...
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