cadmium orange

American  

noun

1. a yellow color approaching orange.

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Etymology

Origin of cadmium orange

First recorded in 1890–95

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cadmium orange

There are the products of nineteenth-century chemical innovation—viridian green, cadmium orange, and the chrome yellow with which van Gogh was infatuated but which, over time, has begun to darken his sunflowers.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018

I created it when I spilled some cadmium orange on my linoleum tile floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The color of the gills is orange to cadmium orange, or sometimes paler, cadmium yellow or deep chrome.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

Burnt Sienna, cadmium orange, Mars orange, neutral orange, and orange or burnt Roman ochre, are all strictly permanent.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

For example, there may be formed from the primaries, a compound of aureolin, rose madder, and ultramarine; or from the secondaries, a mixture of cadmium orange, viridian, and madder purple.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas