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Definition: Realgar |
RealgarNoun1. A rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide; an important ore of arsenic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "realgar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
"Realgar" is a common misspelling or typo for: eager, raglan, railcar, ranger, Reagan, rearguard, regalia, relearn, rigor. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemistry | Arsenic disulphide red, used in pyrotechnics. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Arsenic monosulfide, AsS, contains 70.1% elemental arsenic b. A monoclinic mineral, AsS ; dimorphous with pararealgar; red to orange; soft; in ore veins, hot springs, and as a volcanic sublimate.Syn:red arsenic; sandarac; red orpiment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Realgar |
| English words defined with "realgar": arsenic, As, atomic number 33 ♦ Indian fire ♦ orpiment ♦ Red orpiment, Resalgar, Rosalgar ♦ Zarnich. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "realgar": ruby arsenic. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "realgar": Rosalgar. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Realgar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (realgar), Manx (realgar, sandarac), Serbo-Croatian (realgar), Swedish (realgar). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
realgar | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "realgar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | realgar. (various references) | |
Arabic | زريخ أحمر, رهج الغار (realignment). (various references) | |
Chinese | 雄黃 (red orpiment). (various references) | |
Danish | realgar (ruby sulfur). (various references) | |
Dutch | realgar (artificial arsenic disulphide, artificial realgar, As2S2, false realgar, red sulphide, ruby arsenic, ruby sulfur). (various references) | |
French | réalgar. (various references) | |
German | Realgar (ruby sulfur). (various references) | |
Greek | κόκκινη σανδαράχη. (various references) | |
Hungarian | arzénszulfid. (various references) | |
Italian | realgar (ruby sulfur). (various references) | |
Manx | realgar (sandarac). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ealgarray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rosalgar (ruby sulfur). (various references) | |
Russian | реальгар. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | realgar. (various references) | |
Spanish | rejalgar (italian arum, sandarac). (various references) | |
Swedish | realgar (ruby sulfur). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "realgar": realgars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "realgar" (pronounced 'Re*al"gar'): Eggar, Resalgar, Rosalgar, Seggar, Supravulgar. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-l-r-r" | |
-1 letter: aglare, alegar, laager, larger. | |
-2 letters: algae, areal, argal, argle, galea, glare, graal, lager, large, regal. | |
-3 letters: agar, ager, alae, alar, alga, area, earl, egal, gala, gale, gear, lear, raga, rage, rale, rare, real, rear. | |
-4 letters: aal, aga, age, ala, ale, are, ear, era, erg, err, gae, gal, gar, gel, lag, lar, lea, leg, rag, reg. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, al, ar, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-l-r-r" | |
+1 letter: realgars. | |
+2 letters: armigeral, barrelage. | |
+3 letters: barrelages, rigamarole. | |
+4 letters: plagiarizer, rectangular, rigamaroles. | |
+5 letters: calligrapher, galactorrhea, grandiflorae, irrefragable, irrefragably, largehearted, marriageable, paleographer, plagiarizers, preinaugural, programmable, rechargeable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 61 6C 67 61 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .- .-.. --. .- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01100111 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e a l g a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0061 006C 0067 0061 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716778736784 |
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