How to Use cinnabar in a Sentence

cinnabar

noun

• In the late 1800s, Oat Hill was one of the richest cinnabar (mercury) mines in the West, and the trail follows the old road that led toward the mine.
  — Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• Faux cinnabar lamp/vase Q. Found this vase in a small antique store in eastern Oregon.
  — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2020
• That turned out to be cinnabar, likely from the same mine that later supplied the mineral for the Spaniards' silver processing.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2020
• The Maya were especially fond of paint made from a blood-red mineral pigment called cinnabar.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 June 2020
• At the time of the discovery, researchers identified the red pigment as the mineral cinnabar, which was used for its bright red color across many cultures.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2021
• But blush prevailed again during the Renaissance, with concoctions of cochineal, sandalwood, or cinnabar mixed with grease or wax.
  — Linda Wells, Town & Country, 16 Apr. 2021
• During the period studied, cinnabar was used to decorate megalithic chambers, figurines and the bodies of the dead.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2021
• There are a few color options for each cover including chocolate, cinnabar, silver fox, and chestnut.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 30 June 2020
• Medieval painters used a variety of pigments, some of which were quite toxic (cinnabar, orpiment, and lead white in particular).
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2021
• The researchers attribute the mercury pollution’s presence to the mineral cinnabar, or mercuric sulfide.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2020
• Transporting cinnabar long distances for a specific purpose wasn't unheard of in pre-Columbian Peru, so the discovery wasn't shocking.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2020
• Since Roman times, when slaves worked the cinnabar mines, mercury has been known to cause a wide range of symptoms, including headaches, tremors, drooling, difficulty walking, and eventually, death.
  — National Geographic, 24 May 2016
• Since Roman times, when slaves worked the cinnabar mines, mercury has been known to cause a wide range of symptoms, including headaches, tremors, drooling, difficulty walking, and eventually, death.
  — National Geographic, 24 May 2016
• Which means for decoration, the ancient Maya used mercury-containing powder and cinnabar for patios, floor areas, walls and ceramics.
  — Erin Berge, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2022
• Coastal Peru’s arid climate and salty soil helped preserve the bodies, retaining details that show some children had their faces painted with red cinnabar; others wore cotton headdresses.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
• Remains unearthed at the site include conch shell trumpets from Ecuador, cinnabar (a bright red pigment) from south-central Peru and obsidian from Ayacucho in southern Peru.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
• The researchers found that trace amounts of cinnabar, a blood-red pigment heavy in mercury that is sometimes used for decorative purposes and is often used in embalming was evident in traces on the exterior of the femur piece.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• The colors pictured here are those that Balla himself specified: a smoldering combination of cinnabar, citron and deep forest.
  — Nancy Hass, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
• The earliest work rendered into color is a Cycladic figure, with an oversize head connected to an abstracted body, now with a small triangle of cinnabar to create a rictus of red lips, dots on the cheeks and arching eyebrows.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• Shorn of ornament and minimally furnished, the fortresslike vacation home is all jutting red sandstone angles and expanses of glass, opening onto the cinnabar-hued landscape.
  — New York Times, 20 Sep. 2021
• Whoever first decided to throw cinnabar into a fire realized the mercury left as vapor that could be collected and recombined into pure mercury.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2020
• One grave unearthed by archaeologists contained roughly 20 pounds of powdered cinnabar.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2020
• Tikal residents’ widespread use of cinnabar, especially in and around the city’s temples and main palace, likely resulted in dangerous quantities of the mercury-laden powder washing into the reservoirs during heavy rainfall.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2020
• The team concluded that the Maya used cinnabar, a bright red mineral containing mercury, for decorative paints and powders that served ceremonial and religious purposes.
  — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2022
• In a study lab across town, paleobotanists and archaeozoologists analyzed fragments, and researchers painstakingly repaired a 10-foot-high wall fresco painted with pigment made from ground cinnabar.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• Some scholars posit that people intentionally ingested cinnabar as a drug during religious ceremonies, but this hypothesis remains unproven.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2021

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