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Vermilion (sometimes spelled vermillion) is a color family and toxic pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century and made from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange.

Etymology and common name

"Vermilion" is attested as a color name in English in 1289.It comes from Old French vermeillon,

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