Cinnabar
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“If cinnabar were sometimes red, sometimes black, sometimes light, sometimes heavy, if a man changed sometimes into this and sometimes into that animal form, ... my empirical imagination would never find opportunity when representing red color to bring to mind heavy cinnabar.”--Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Kant |
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Cinnabar is the bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide (HgS). It is the most common source ore for refining elemental mercury, and is the historic source for the brilliant red or scarlet pigment termed vermilion and associated red mercury pigments.
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