The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yellow \Yel"low\, n.
A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. ``A long motley coat guarded with yellow.''
--Shak.-
A yellow pigment.
Cadmium yellow, Chrome yellow, Indigo yellow, King's yellow, etc. See under Cadmium, Chrome, etc.
Naples yellow, a yellow amorphous pigment, used in oil, porcelain, and enamel painting, consisting of a basic lead metantimonate, obtained by fusing together tartar emetic lead nitrate, and common salt.
Patent yellow (Old Chem.), a yellow pigment consisting essentially of a lead oxychloride; -- called also Turner's yellow.
Cadmium \Cad"mi*um\, n. [NL. See Cadmia.] (Chem.) A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore.
Cadmium yellow, a compound of cadmium and sulphur, of an intense yellow color, used as a pigment.
Wiktionary
n. cadmium sulphide when used as a pigment
WordNet
n. pigment of cadmium sulfide and barium sulfate varying in hue from lemon yellow to orange
Usage examples of "cadmium yellow".
At the time his palette had been reduced to a few, extremely vivid colors: cadmium yellow and red, Veronese green, emerald, cobalt, cobalt-violet, French vermilion, and crimson lake.
Weed opened the caps of sap green, cadmium yellow and alizarin crimson.
But his palette remained crowded with dabs and mixtures of American Vermilion, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber, and Ivory Black.
Whatever it was, it was bright cadmium yellow on the screen, and around it flickered no fewer than five of the upside-down question marks.
It wasn't shit, he kept saying, it was burnt umber, and prussian blue, and cadmium yellow, but somehow when you mixed colors together, any colors, they always came out looking like shit eventually.
Long bars of cadmium yellow, streaked with vermilion, flared across the western horizon.
Renie hung up the phone and stared for long moments at a stripe of cadmium yellow paint splashed across the face of the node, the long tail of a graffiti letter so arcane that she couldn't make it out.
In its center was a clutch of five slender stamens, ruddy as the Kundalan sun, the anthers at their tips the purest cadmium yellow.
Clearly an Aglayan, but dressed in Galactic clothes, five-way-stretch cerulean pants and a two-button cadmium yellow tunic that left a great portion of her considerable warheads exposed.
But his palette remained crowded with dabs and mixtures of American Venuilion, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber, and Ivory Black.