8 example sentences using cinnabar.
Cinnabar used in a sentence
Cinnabar in a sentence as a noun
I think they gloss over cinnabar too quickly.
They already have places full of mercury naturally: cinnabar mines.
You have to get to nearly the end before the author admits that cinnabar, a long-known and common mercury ore, is an intense red colour.
Interesting they mention cinnabar, one of the candidates for the origin of the "red mercury" myth.
Cinnabar in a sentence as an adjective
The Chinese used to chew on cinnabar which they believed to be healthy and give longevity but was toxic, since it is actually mercury sulfide.
Mercury actually concentrates into little beads on cinnabar ore, and is not very reactive.
Being a plant has nothing to do with it being available to exposure for our evolutionary history as cinnabar certainly predates humanity.
Proper Noun Examples for Cinnabar
That seems especially likely since the center of a person's Qi in traditional Chinese medicine is often called the "Cinnabar Field" and cinnabar was used in Taoist alchemy that often sought immortality.
Cinnabar definitions
a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury
large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
See also: vermilion vermillion Chinese-red