A treatise on the external characters of minerals / [Robert Jameson].

  • Robert Jameson
Date:
[1805]
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Credit: A treatise on the external characters of minerals / [Robert Jameson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    e. Mountain green is composed of emerald green* with much blue* and a little yellowish grey; .or verdi- gris green with yellowish grey. It passes into greenish grey. Examples* beryll and hornstone. d. Leek green is composed of emerald green with a little brown, and somewhat more bluish grey. Examples* nephrite* common actynolite* and prase. e. Emerald green. The principal or pure unmixed green. All the preceding green colours are more or less mixed with blue* and at length pass into it; but the following part of the green series* by the increasing proportion of yellow* at length passes into yellow. Examples* emerald and fibrous ma- lachite. f. Apple green is emerald green mixed with a little greyish white. It passes into greenish white. Examples* copper nickel ochre and crysoprase. g. Grass green is emerald green mixed with a little lemon yellow. The colour of fresh newly sprung grass. Example, uranite. h. Blackish green is grass green mixed with a con- siderable portion of black. It passes into greenish black. Example, precious serpentine. i. Pistachio green is emerald green mixed with a.little yellow and a small portion of brown. Example* chrysolite. k. Asparagus green is pistachio green mixed with a little greyish white; or emerald green mixed with yellow and a little brown. It passes into liver brown. Examples* garnet: and oliven ore. L Olive green is grass green mixed with much brown ; or emerald green with a little yellow and much brown. It passes into liver brown. Examples* garnet and oliven ore.