minium
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of minium
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin: cinnabar, red lead
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Better to stick to madder root, red ochre, or the red-lead minium that had been in use since classical antiquity.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
Overnight and summertime minium give insight in how sustained the heat has become.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2018
Like Virginia, the D.C. rules also require minium levels of insurance coverage and background checks for drivers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2015
It also would have called on each shareholder to have a minium account balance and to keep it there for at least 30 days.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2012
On the same principle fixed air is produced when iron, and other inflammable substances, are burned in dephlogisticated air, and also when minium, and other substances containing dephlogisticated air, are heated in inflammable air.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
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