Scheele's green

American  

noun

1. copper arsenite used as a pigment, especially in paints.

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Etymology

Origin of Scheele's green

First recorded in 1810–20; named after K.W. Scheele

Example Sentences

And in the Victorian period, some publishers used binding cloth dyed with colors like Scheele’s green, an industrially produced hue also containing arsenic.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

Scheele’s green is a basic copper arsenite; Schweinfurt green, an aceto-arsenite; and Casselmann’s green a compound of cupric sulphate with potassium or sodium acetate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

Confectionery is often poisoned with Prussian-blue, Antwerp-blue, gamboge, ultramarine, chrome yellow, red-lead, white-lead, vermilion, Brunswick-green, and Scheele’s green, or arsenite of copper!

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)

Gas-light green is a lovely green, and free from all danger, and is fortunately superseding the Scheele's green both in dresses and in worsted work.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry

The result is, so to speak, a sort of blue Scheele's green, into which latter colour it soon passes when rubbed with oil.

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