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

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Scheele's green

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

It is injurious to wear a green dress, if the colour have been imparted to it by means of Scheele's green, which is arsenite of copper—a deadly poison.

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

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 P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

Now I do not say that a country looks inviting when it is coloured in Scheele’s green or a bilious yellow, but these colours may arise from lack of artistic gift in the cartographer. 

From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley

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 Thomas Salter