minium

Definitions

Examples

• Perhaps the most interesting experiment made by Hales is the heating of minium (red-lead) with the production of oxygen.

• Native minium or red lead, has an earthy aspect, of a lively and nearly pure red colour, but sometimes inclining to orange.

• The best minium, however, called orange mine, is made by the slow calcination of good white lead (carbonate) in iron trays.

• The battery is composed of two sheets of lead, which are covered with a layer of minium (Pb3O4).

• Nor shall thy title be marked with minium, nor thy leaf scented with cedar-oil.