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Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic. [Archaic]

a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.

ommercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 23. Specific gravity 0.97. Sodium amalgam, an alloy of sodium and mercury, usually produced as a gray metallic crystalline substance, which is used as a reducing agent, and otherwise. -- Sodium bicarbonate, a white crystalline substance, HNaCO3, with a slight alkal…

A stammering or stuttering. [Obs.] Dalgarno.

A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).

t, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.

water. They melt thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Byron.

Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or realgar, and orpiment.