turnbull's blue

turnbull's blue
\\ˈtərnˌbu̇lz-\ noun
Usage: usually capitalized T
Etymology: probably from the name Turnbull
: an iron blue pigment having a coppery luster formed as a precipitate when an alkali metal ferricyanide and a ferrous salt are brought together in solution and formerly regarded as ferrous ferricyanide — compare prussian blue

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Turnbull's blue /tûrnˈbəlz bloo/
noun
Ferrous ferricyanide (or poss ferric ferrocyanide)
ORIGIN: Turnbull, a Glasgow manufacturing chemist (18c), not the discoverer

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