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orpiment


orpiment
Orpiment from Nevada
A soft, lemon-yellow sulfur mineral, arsenic (III) sulfide (As2S3), used as a pigment. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system, but is usually massive. Orpiment forms by deposition from geysers or by alteration of realgar


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