element

Massicot

Elements · Colors & materials

A soft yellow lead monoxide pigment. Not litharge as the fused form alone, and not yellow ochre as an earth.

  • Massicot is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats massicot and related lead-oxide yellows among mineral preparations neighboring litharge and minium drugs. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the yellow lead oxide, not minium red lead alone and not metallic lead.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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