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cinnabar

Mercuric sulphide mineral, HgS, the only commercially useful ore of mercury. It is deposited in veins and impregnations near recent volcanic rocks and hot springs. The mineral itself is used as a red pigment, commonly known as vermilion. Cinnabar is found in the USA (California), Spain (Almadén), Peru, Italy, and Slovenia.



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For instance, the bright-red paint used to depict flowers and birds' plumages was a common pigment from that era called cinnabar.
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But in nature, it combines with sulfur to form a bright red mineral (naturally occurring solid made of different elements) called cinnabar.
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