Color Names

Cassiterite Brown

Dark ore, like the mineral that brings tin from the depths.

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Cassiterite Brown is a dark brown.

It can be described as dark, dim, somber and gloomy.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Cassiterite Brown

Cassiterite

Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2. It is generally opaque, but it is translucent in thin crystals. Its luster and multiple crystal faces produce a desirable gem. Cassiterite was the chief tin ore throughout ancient history and remains the most important source of tin today. It is also a semiconductor.

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Brown

Brown is a color. It can be thought as a darker, typically desaturated shade of orange, and can often be produced by combining red and yellow with another color, namely blue.

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cassiterite

Noun

  1. A generally black mineral, composed of tin oxide, SnO2, which is an important ore of tin.
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brown

Noun

  1. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  2. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.

Adjective

  1. Having a brown color/colour.
  2. Gloomy.
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