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ed to a compound of carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called carbon dioxide. It is a colorless, heavy, irrespirable gas, extinguishing flame, and when breathed destroys life. It can be reduced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentation of liquors, and by the combustion and d…

y heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.…

A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton.

Having a flesh color.

A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals.

oot of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.

Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.

A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius.

ative tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin…

gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.

A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. Gray with a cast of green. Woodward.

are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.

A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape.

Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc.

A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

ly, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.

osed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called xylonite.…