, CINNABAR.
Zunjefer,. . . . ARAB. I Guluga, . . . MALAY. Shwui-yin, Tan-sha, CHIN. Sodilengam, . . M.u.sat.
Chu-sha, Shin-sha, „ Shangarf,. . . . PERS.
Hung, . . . . . „ Inghulum, . . SANSK.
Pak Shangbarf, . DU Ell. Shadilingam, . . Tam.
1 Hingda, 'Engl.'s, . HIND. Inghilikam, . TAM., TEL. Durdar, Hingur, . „ This is found in commerce, native and manu factured. It is the red or bi-sulphuret of mercury. 'rhe best native cinnabar is red, heavy, brilliant, of a high colour, and free from earthy or stony matter. It is found in various places, chiefly in quicksilver mines, being one of the ores of that metal. It occurs native in China abundantly in Shen-si ; and all the quicksilver (shwin yin, water silver, i.e. hydrargyrum) not imported into China is there obtained from this ore, by a rude process of burning brushwood in the wells, and then col lecting the metal after condensation. Cinnabar is brought from the mines of China in the form of a coarse shining powder, with a varying depth of red colour. The finest is used RR a pigment, and in Making red lacquer for varnishing. Cin
nabar has been discovered at Bassein, in Borneo, in a mountain range called Bungo, extending between two branches of the Sarawak river. It yields SI per cent. of quicksilver. For making artificial cinnabar, when two parts of mercury and one of sulphur are triturated together, the mercury gradually disappears, and the whole assumes the form of a black powder. When this is heated red hot, it sublimes, and if a proper vessel be placed to receive it, a cake is obtained of a fine red colour, which, when reduced to a fine powder, is known by the name of vermilion. Artificial cinnabar is largely manufactured in Cal cutta, and in small quantities at Surat. It has been employed in medicine by the Hindus from time immemorial, to salivate their patients, causing them to inhale its fumes. Cinnabar is entirely volatile from a alip of talc, while the impurities remain behind. Compound cinnabar ointment ia Captain Aitkin's useful ringworm ointment.— .111iddle Kingdom ; Mason Beng. Phan; Thoinson's Chemistry.