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    Crocoite is a mineral consisting of lead chromate, PbCrO4, and crystallizing in the monoclinic crystal system. It is identical in composition with the...
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    Louis Nicolas Vauquelin received samples of crocoite ore. He produced chromium trioxide (CrO3) by mixing crocoite with hydrochloric acid. In 1797, Vauquelin...
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    Leatherwood (unofficial) (Eucryphia lucida) Colour(s) Bottle Green (PMS 342), Yellow (PMS 114), & Maroon (PMS 194) Mineral Crocoite (PbCrO4) Website tas.gov.au...
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     –   Coucy Volume 7.6:   Coucy-le-Château  –   Crocodile Volume 7.7:   Crocoite  –   Cuba Volume 7.8:   Cube  –   Daguerre, Louis Volume 7.9:   Dagupan...
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    solid that is very poorly soluble in water. It occurs also as the mineral crocoite. It is used as a pigment. Two polymorphs of lead chromate are known, orthorhombic...
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  • Cornwallite Corundum Cotunnite Covellite Coyoteite Creedite Cristobalite Crocoite Cronstedtite Crookesite Crossite (not approved by IMA) Cryolite Cryptomelane...
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    pigments. Chrome yellow (lead chromate, PbCrO 4), derived from the mineral crocoite, was used by artists in the earlier part of the 19th century, but has been...
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    obtained directly from the liquor. Chromate containing minerals are rare. Crocoite, PbCrO4, which can occur as spectacular long red crystals, is the most...
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    orange. In 1797 a French scientist Louis Vauquelin discovered the mineral crocoite, or lead chromate, which led in 1809 to the invention of the synthetic...
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  • Sapphire (var.) Padparadscha Golden sheen sapphire Covellite Creedite Crocoite Cryolite Cumberlandite Cuprite Danburite Datolite Descloizite Diamond Bort...
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