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Chrome yellow

Yellow \Yel"low\, n.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

Chrome yellow

Chrome \Chrome\, n. Same as Chromium. Chrome alum (Chem.), a dark violet substance, (SO4)3Cr2.K2SO4.24H2O, analogous to, and crystallizing like, common alum. It is regarded as a double sulphate of chromium and potassium. Chrome green

  1. The green oxide of chromium, Cr2O3, used in enamel painting, and glass staining.

  2. A pigment made by mixing chrome yellow with Prussian blue.

    Chrome red, a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead.

    Chrome yellow, a brilliant yellow pigment, PbCrO4, used by painters.

Wiktionary
chrome yellow

n. A natural yellow pigment derived from lead(II) chromate.

WordNet
chrome yellow
  1. n. any of several yellow pigments consisting of normal lead chromate and other lead compounds

  2. yellow pigment consisting of neutral lead chromate

Wikipedia
Chrome yellow

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Chrome yellow is lead(II) chromate (PbCrO). It occurs naturally as the mineral crocoite but the mineral itself was never used as a pigment in paintings. After the French chemist Louis Vauquelin discovered the new element chromium in 1797 lead chromate has been synthesized in the laboratory and its use as a pigment started in the second decade of the nineteenth century.

Because the pigment tends to oxidize and darken on exposure to air over time, and it contains lead, a toxic, heavy metal, it was originally replaced by another pigment, cadmium yellow (mixed with enough cadmium orange to produce a color equivalent to chrome yellow).

Chrome yellow had been commonly produced by mixing solutions of lead nitrate and potassium chromate and filtering off the lead chromate precipitate.

The first recorded use of chrome yellow as a color name in English was in 1818.

The Piper J-3 Cub aircraft had chrome yellow as its standard overall color, usually called "Cub Yellow" or "Lock Haven Yellow" in aviation circles, from the Piper factory that existed in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, where it was made in the 1930s and during World War II.

Usage examples of "chrome yellow".

I watch ns the dense forest shifts from chrome yellow to a translucent saffron and then slowly fades through ocher to umber to gloom.

Iris and pupil disappeared as the whole substance of his eyes suddenly, and momentarily, turned chrome yellow, the same shade as the assassin's.

On each tree the tip of the trunk sprouted a single huge leaf, a flapping flag, orange or chrome yellow and ragged at the end.

Isabella noticed that, while the visitors wore white suits, the four technicians were in chrome yellow and the director's suit was tomato red for easy identification.

He wore the same green uniform Steve had seen him in before but now, a chrome yellow diamond patch had been inserted between the white and red chevron on his sleeve.

The heart of the woods with all that chrome yellow and Chinese blue might be good.

His skin was not pale yellow-brown, but a smooth chrome yellow, the color of a comic-book Fu Manchu.