Chrome n. Same as Chromium. Chrome alum (Chem.), a dark violet substance, (SO4)3Cr2.K2SO4.24H2O, analogous to, and crystallizing like, common alum. It is regarded as a double sulphate of chromium and potassium.
Chrome green (a)The green oxide of chromium, Cr2O3, used in enamel painting, and glass staining.
(b)A pigment made by mixing chrome yellow with Prussian blue.
Chrome red, a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead.
Chrome yellow, a brilliant yellow pigment, PbCrO4, used by painters.
Green n. 1.The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
2.A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. "O'er the smooth enameled green."
3.Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; usually in the plural. "In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers."
4.pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
5.Any substance or pigment of a green color.
Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green; called also Helvetia green.
Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin. Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition.
Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper.
Chrome green. See under Chrome. Emerald green. (Chem.) (a)A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; called also aldehyde green, acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate.
(b)See Paris green (below).
Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium.
Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; called also light-green.
Mineral green. See under Mineral. Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a. Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; called also Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and mitis green.
Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green.
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