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Bice

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.

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noun
  1. 1

    A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.

  2. 2

    A cobalt blue pigment.

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bisenounA cold and dry north wind; in particular in France, Switzerland, etc.
smaltnounA deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide.
bice bluenounA deep blue colour, like that of the sky on a clear day.
chinese bluenounA pigment made from barium copper tetrasilicate (“BaO·CuO·(SiO₂)₄”), used in ancient China.
peligot's bluenounA blue pigment made from silica with copper oxide, lime and soda.
han bluenounA pigment made from barium copper tetrasilicate (BaCuSi₄O₁₀), an artificial blue pigment, used by ancient Chinese for over 2 millennia before dying out at the end of the Han dynasty; one of the few alternates to azurite in ancient times.
saunders bluenounA pigment prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine.
mountain bluenounBlue carbonate of copper; azurite.
blue leadnounA dark grey or indigo form of galena, used as a pigment.
egyptian bluenounA pigment made from calcium copper tetrasilicate (“CaCuSi₄O₁₀”), the first artificial pigment, a blue, used by Egyptians for over 3 millennia, before dying out during the Roman Empire; one of the few alternates to lapis lazuli during ancient times.
cobaltnounA chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
mineral bluenounpowdered azurite used as a pigment
barium copper tetrasilicatenounBaCuSi₄O₁₀, the pigment Chinese blue / Han blue; BaO·CuO·(SiO₂)₄
mohammedan bluenoun(historical) A dark blue pigment made from cobalt ore.
ice bluenounA very pale blue colour.
dumont's bluenounSynonym of smalt (“a blue pigment”).
bluestonenounAny of several bluish-grey varieties of stone used for construction:
milori bluenounThe rich blue colour of this pigment.
thumb bluenoun(obsolete or historical) An indigo dye, in the form of small balls or lumps, used in the 19th century for dyeing linen etc.
bilicyaninnoun(biochemistry) A blue (or bluish) bile pigment found in gallstones and formed by oxidation of biliverdin or bilirubin.

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