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cinnabrium

cinnabrium [κιννάβαρι] , cinnabar, red mercuric sulphide. b dragon’s blood (Dracaena cinnabari). accip[i]ebant de isto allumine rubeo et ‥ semine amborum arsenicorum, sulphuris, tartari, talci, cinabrii, omnium ana, ponebant super m[ercurium] et ex ipso †extrahebunt lunam pretiosam M. Scot Lumen 256; igne sicco et calcinacione sicca decoque siccum, donec rubeat ut cinabrium Dastin Ros. 18.  b cinobrium, quod Grece †cinabatim dicitur, a dracone et a barro elephante est vocatum [Isid. Etym. XIX 17.8] Bart. Angl. XIX 26; sandaracha ‥ est coloris sinobrium Ib. 28.

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