aureolin

American  

[aw-ree-uh-lin, uh-ree-] / ɔˈri ə lɪn, əˈri- /

noun

1. a pigment used in painting, consisting of potassium cobaltinitrite and characterized by its brilliant yellow hue, transparency, and permanence.

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Other Word Forms

• aureoline adjective

Etymology

Origin of aureolin

1875–80; < Latin aureol ( us ) golden, of gold ( aureole ) + -in ²

Example Sentences

With French blue it affords a beautiful sea green; and, mixed with aureolin, gives fine foliage tints.

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

Compounded with aureolin, Venetian red yields a clear orange of considerable transparency.

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

With aureolin and burnt Sienna, or Vandyke brown, it affords valuable autumn greens; and with lamp black, or lamp black and light red, good stormy clouds.

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

We can give it no higher praise than by saying it equals aureolin in stability, as well as in neither injuring, nor being injured by, other colours.

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

To our knowledge, aureolin is quite uninjured by the severest tests to which a pigment can be subjected.

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