massicot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of massicot
1425–75; late Middle English masticot < Middle French < Italian massicotto < Arabic masḥaqūniyā, perhaps < Greek
Example Sentences
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This is procured by mixing massicot, or Naples yellow, with a small quantity of realgar, and a very little Spanish white.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young
Every facility is also afforded by its streams for erecting works for the manufacture of white and red lead, massicot, litharge, shot, sheet-lead, mineral yellow, and the other manufactures dependent upon lead.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
As third class pigments, or the fugitive, must be ranked Mutrie yellow and other lemon cadmiums, the true gallstone, Indian yellow, the lakes, orpiment, Gelbin's yellow, massicot, patent yellow, and turbith mineral.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
The German term indicates that this "Lead Ochre," a form of PbO, is what in the English trade is known as massicot, or masticot.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
In a greater degree of heat it becomes massicot again, having parted with its pure air.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
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