ultramarine

• “Another method of purifying the ultramarine from the cement may be used, which is the pricking the yolks of eggs with a pin, and moistening the matter to be purified with the soft part that will run out, and working them together in a glass or flint mortar; after which the mixture must be put into the lixivium, and proceeded with as is above directed.”

  The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe

• “Then he looked at the third, whereon he found written in ultramarine these two couplets,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “The use of an expensive coloring source or coloring material was reasonable, for example, when substitutes were not good enough, when the area to be covered was small but central to the design, or when the quantity of coloring material produced was large in proportion to the amount of coloring source used. reference True ultramarine is a brilliant, beautiful, and reasonably durable pigment.”

  The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe

• “When so ground, it forms the stable and magnificent colour, _genuine_ ultramarine, which is the finest and purest blue on the artist's palette, but owing to its extremely high price its use is not in very great demand, especially as many excellent chemical substitutes of equal permanence are obtainable at little cost.”

  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

• “Blue as the veins o'er the Madonna's breast," from which the beautiful pigment called ultramarine is extracted.”

  How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

• “One entry might explain how to repeat Newton's experiments with prisms; others might describe materials and techniques needed to produce certain colors, such as ultramarine reference, verdet, or carmine. 16 Descriptions of such processes as painting or enameling might also include ingredient lists and production details.”

  The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe

• “1828 M. Guimet succeeded in making an artificial ultramarine, known now extensively as French ultramarine, which is little, if at all, inferior in beauty to lazurite.”

  How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

• “Colours for painting, not only those used by artists, such as ultramarine, [3] carmine, [4] and lake; [5] Antwerp blue, [6] chrome yellow, [7] and Indian ink; [8] but also the coarser colours used by the common house-painter are more or less adulterated.”

  A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy

• “ultramarine" has been derived, is most remarkable in the Mediterranean, that sea of delights; but it is met with, all along the rock-bound coasts of the Peninsula of Spain and Portugal, extending through the”

  The Two Admirals

• “She wore conservative Romulan clothing, including black slacks and a long-sleeved ultramarine blouse.”

  Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire

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