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noun

Chrome n. Same as Chromium.

Chrome alum (Chem.), a dark violet substance, (SO4)3Cr2.K2SO4.24H2O, analogous to, and crystallizing like, common alum. It is regarded as a double sulphate of chromium and potassium.

Chrome green

(a)

The green oxide of chromium, Cr2O3, used in enamel painting, and glass staining.

(b)

A pigment made by mixing chrome yellow with Prussian blue.

Chrome red, a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead.

Chrome yellow, a brilliant yellow pigment, PbCrO4, used by painters.

verb

Chrome v. t. (past & past part. chromed; pres. part. chroming) To treat with a solution of potassium bichromate, as in dyeing.

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Etymology of 'Chrome'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chrome" Quotes from Famous Books

... numbers of these Catocala moths running the colour scheme of-yellow, from pale chrome to umber. Many shade from light pink through the reds to a dark blood colour. Then there is a smaller number having brown back wings and with ...

— Moths of the Limberlost • Gene Stratton-Porter

... the 2c was chronicled, its color being given as "a delicate chrome-green." The design differs from the 3c and 6c chiefly in the direction of the curve of the word CENTS, which is reversed, as compared with those ...

— The Stamps of Canada • Bertram Poole

... will make it red or pink, according to the quantity used. A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside walls. Lampblack in small quantities will make slate color. Finely pulverized clay mixed with Spanish brown, makes lilac. Yellow chrome or yellow ochre makes yellow. Green must not be used; lime destroys the color, and ...

— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller

... yellow Fritillary has been produced," but (not being the producers) they add, "It is not a good yellow." Pour moi, I take leave to judge of colours as well as Barr and Sugden, and can assure you it is a very lovely yellow, pale and chrome-y. It has been like a chapter out ...

— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden

... known all over Ringgold County, and even beyond, as the "squash man." He painted this rotund and noble product of the truck-farm in varying aspects and with varying accessories. Sometimes he posed it, gallantly cleft asunder, on the corner of the bran-bin, with its umber and chrome standing out boldly against a background of murky bitumen; and sometimes he placed it on the threshold of the barn door, with a rake or a pitchfork alongside, and other squashes (none too certain in their perspective) looming ...

— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller

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