Minium is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 35 anagrams from letters in minium (iimmnu).
1350-1400; Middle English Latin: cinnabar, red lead
The ancient names for these red pigments were used very indiscriminately, μίλτος, minium, cinnabaris and rubrica.
Perhaps the most interesting experiment made by Hales is the heating of minium (red-lead) with the production of oxygen.
The flux consists of borax, sand, and minium in small quantity.
The detection of minium is conveniently executed in the dry way.
The colouring is heavy, painted in opaque tempera pigments with an undue preponderance of minium or red lead.
The term used by him for the mineral is minium nativum (Interpretatio,—bergzinober or cinnabaris).
This is an ancient pigment, the κιννάβαρι of the Greeks, and the minium—a term now confined to red lead—of older writers.
Pliny is somewhat confused over the minium—or the text is corrupt, for this should be the genuine minium of Roman times.
minium reflects the least refrangible or red-making Rays most copiously, and thence appears red.
After being roasted it is pulverized and is minium secundarium.
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