furbish
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Strange preparations have been offered as pigments, and sometimes accepted, witness turbith mineral, iodine yellow, &c.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
The names, besides, which were formerly employed, such as powder of algaroth, salt of alembroth, pompholix, phagadenic water, turbith mineral, colcathar, and many others, were neither less barbarous nor less uncommon.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine
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
