See also:

• CINNABAR (Ger. Zinnober)

CINNABAR (Ger. Zinnober)  , sometimes written cinnabarite, a name applied to red mercuric sulphide (HgS), or native See also:

• VERMILION

vermilion, the See also:

• COMMON

common ore of See also:

• MERCURY
• MERCURY (MERCU1uus)
• MERCURY (symbol Hg, atomic weight = 2oo)

mercury . The name comes from the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek Kivval3api, used by See also:

• THEOPHRASTUS

Theophrastus, and probably applied to several distinct substances . See also:

• CINNABAR (Ger. Zinnober)

Cinnabar is generally found in a massive, granular or earthy See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, of See also:

• BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
• BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

bright red See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, but it occasionally occurs in crystals, with a metallic adamantine lustre . The crystals belong to the hexagonal See also:

• SYSTEM

system, and are generally of See also:

• RHOMBOHEDRAL

rhombohedral See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit, sometimes twinned . Cinnabar presents remarkable resemblance to See also:

• QUARTZ

quartz in its symmetry and See also:

• OPTICAL

optical characters . Like quartz it exhibits circular polarization, and A . See also:

• DES

Des Cloizeaux showed that it possessed fifteen times the rotatory See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of quartz (see POLARIZATION OF See also:

• LIGHT

LIGHT) . Cinnabar has higher refractive power than any other known See also:

• MINERAL

mineral, its mean See also:

• INDEX

index for See also:

• SODIUM [symbol Na, from Lat. natrium; atomic weight 23.00 (0=16)]

sodium light being 3.02, whilst the index for See also:

• DIAMOND

diamond—a substance of remarkable See also:

• REFRACTION
• REFRACTION (Lat. refringere, to break open or apart)

refraction—is only 2.42 (see REFRACTION) . The hardness of cinnabar is 3, and its specific gravity 8.998 . Cinnabar is found in all localities which yield quicksilver, notably See also:

• ALMADEN, or ALMADEN DEL AZOGUE

Almaden (See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain), New Almaden (See also:

• CALIFORNIA
• CALIFORNIA, LOWER (Baja California)
• CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF

California), See also:

• IDRIA

Idria (See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria), Landsberg, near Ober-Moschel in the See also:

• PALATINATE (Ger. Pfalz)

Palatinate, Ripa, at the See also:

• FOOT

foot of the Apuan See also:

• ALPS

Alps (See also:

• TUSCANY
• TUSCANY (Toscana)

Tuscany), the See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain Avala (See also:

• SERVIA

Servia), See also:

• HUANCAVELICA

Huancavelica (See also:

• PERU
• PERU (apparently from Biru, a small river on the west coast of Colombia, where Pizarro landed)

Peru), and the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of Kweichow in See also:

• CHINA

China, whence very See also:

• FINE

fine crystals have been obtained . Cinnabar is in course of deposition at the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day from the hot See also:

• WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters of See also:

• SULPHUR

Sulphur See also:

• BANK

Bank, in California, and Steamboat Springs, See also:

• NEVADA
• NEVADA (a Spanish word meaning " snow-clad " or " snowy land," originally applied to a snow-capped mountain range on the Pacific slope)

Nevada . Hepatic cinnabar is an impure variety from Idria in See also:

• CARNIOLA (Ger. Krain)

Carniola, in which the cinnabar is mixed with bituminous and earthy See also:

• MATTER

matter .

Metacinnabarite is a cubic form of mercuric sulphide, this See also:

• COMPOUND
• COMPOUND (from Lat. componere, to combine or put together)

compound being dimorphous . For a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general description of cinnabar, see G . F . See also:

• BECKER, HEINRICH (1770-1822)
• BECKER, WILHELM ADOLF (1796—1846)

Becker's See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope, U.S . Geol . Surv . Monographs, No. xiii . (1888) . (F . W .