massicot

American  

[mas-i-kot] / ˈmæs ɪˌkɒt /

noun

1. monoxide of lead, PbO, in the form of a yellow powder, used as a pigment and drier.

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massicot British  

/ ˈmæsɪˌkɒt /

noun

1. a yellow earthy secondary mineral consisting of lead oxide. Formula: PbO

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Etymology

Origin of massicot

1425–75; late Middle English masticot < Middle French < Italian massicotto < Arabic masḥaqūniyā, perhaps < Greek

Example Sentences

It is an oxide of uncertain composition, prepared by subjecting massicot to the heat of a furnace with an expanded surface and free accession of air.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

In the progress of calcination it first becomes a dusky grey powder, then yellow, when it is called massicot; then, by imbibing pure air, it becomes red, and is called minium, or red lead.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph

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 Priestley, Joseph

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 Salter, Thomas

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 Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe