Color Names

Cinnabar

Mercury ore, darker than its usual bright scarlet, burned to ember.

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Cinnabar is a deep maroon.

It can be described as deep, rich, dark and dim.

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Cinnabar

Cinnabar

Cinnabar, also called cinnabarite or mercurblende, is the bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide (HgS). It is the most common source ore for refining elemental mercury and is the historic source for the brilliant red or scarlet pigment termed vermilion and associated red mercury pigments.

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Shades of red

Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma, lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.

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cinnabar

Noun

  1. A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.
  2. A bright red colour tinted with orange.

Adjective

  1. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.
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