Show vermillion one of the most extraordinary metallic colors in respect to the mode in which it is produced is unquestionably vermil vermillion lioa chemistry presents few transformations more striking than this if the reader were to submit to himself the queston what color and what form of substance would result from melting together solid yellow brimstone and liquid white quicksilver he would guess long before he hit upon the correct re reply ply the substance thus produced is the I 1 lovely v ely red powder known to everyone every one by the name of vermillion verra illion how when the melted sulphur combines with the heated mercury change of state and change of color ensue is yet a mystery chemists only know that such is the case they cannot yet dive into corpuscular scalar secrets secreto |