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Orpiment
Orpiment is a deep orange-yellow colored arsenic sulfide mineral with formula As2S3. It is found in volcanic fumaroles, low temperature hydrothermal veins, and hot springs and is formed both by sublimation and as a byproduct of the decay of another arsenic mineral, realgar. It takes its name from the Latin ''auripigmentum'' (''aurum'' − gold + ''pigmentum'' − pigment) because of its deep-yellow color.
== Historical uses ==
Orpiment was traded in the Roman Empire and was used as a medicine in China even though it is very toxic. It has been used as a fly poison and to tip arrows with poison. Because of its striking color, it was of interest to alchemists, both in China and the West, searching for a way to make gold.
For centuries, orpiment was ground down and used as a pigment in painting and for sealing wax. It was one of the few clear, bright-yellow pigments available to artists until the 19th Century. However, its extreme toxicity and incompatibility with other common pigments, including lead and copper-based substances such as verdigris and azurite,〔Fitzhugh, E.W., Orpiment and Realgar, in Artists’ Pigments, A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, Vol 3: E.W. Fitzhugh (Ed.) Oxford University Press 1997, p. 52〕 meant that its use as a pigment ended when cadmium yellows, chromium yellows and organic dye-based colors were introduced during the 19th Century.
Orpiment, as the Latin ''Auripigmentum'', is mentioned by Robert Hooke in ''Micrographia'' for the manufacture of small shot in the 17th century.
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