massicot

American  

[mas-i-kot] / ˈmæs ɪˌkɒt /

noun

1. monoxide of lead, PbO, in the form of a yellow powder, used as a pigment and drier.

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massicot British  

/ ˈmæsɪˌkɒt /

noun

1. a yellow earthy secondary mineral consisting of lead oxide. Formula: PbO

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Etymology

Origin of massicot

1425–75; late Middle English masticot < Middle French < Italian massicotto < Arabic masḥaqūniyā, perhaps < Greek

Example Sentences

This is procured by mixing massicot, or Naples yellow, with a small quantity of realgar, and a very little Spanish white.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

Every facility is also afforded by its streams for erecting works for the manufacture of white and red lead, massicot, litharge, shot, sheet-lead, mineral yellow, and the other manufactures dependent upon lead.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

It is an oxide of uncertain composition, prepared by subjecting massicot to the heat of a furnace with an expanded surface and free accession of air.

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

As third class pigments, or the fugitive, must be ranked Mutrie yellow and other lemon cadmiums, the true gallstone, Indian yellow, the lakes, orpiment, Gelbin's yellow, massicot, patent yellow, and turbith mineral.

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

The German term indicates that this "Lead Ochre," a form of PbO, is what in the English trade is known as massicot, or masticot.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius