| Title: | Vermillion |
| Original Title: | Vermillon |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 17 (1765), p. 74 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Abigail Wendler Bainbridge [West Dean College] |
| Subject terms: |
Chemistry
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Vermillion." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.078>. Trans. of "Vermillon," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 17. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Vermillion." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.078 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Vermillon," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 17:74 (Paris, 1765). |
Vermillion. Red mass, heavy, dense, friable, dotted with silver or bright lines, composed of sulfur and quicksilver, [1] bound together by the art of Chemistry.
Vermillion after having been boiled a long time, is reduced to a very fine powder on porphyry, [2] and is one of the most beautiful red colors that there are in the world; when in boiling vermillion one mixes it with gamboge water with a bit of saffron, one prevents the vermillion from darkening; and it is this red that women put on their face.
Notes
1. Mercury.
2. Igneous rock, used to grind against to make powders. See molette , porphyre, porphyriser.