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chrome yellow

chrome yellow

1 8.5
A bright yellow paint made from lead and used for painting
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : amarillo cromo
  • "PS: Might work with a chrome yellow or another cadmium, maybe N6, N9 for sure!"

Examples

  • Artists often use chrome yellow for its bright and vibrant hue in their creations.

  • Like this is just a little bit of that yellow, the Chrome yellow with the ivory black.

  • Like this is just a little bit of that yellow, the Chrome yellow with the ivory black.

  • His right hand was stained with chrome yellow and viridian.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Frances nearly trips over the grandmother, crouched by a blunt formation of black rock, on her knees with a table knife, chipping chrome yellow powder from the rock and dusting it off her hands into a plastic bag.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The painting was brightened with chrome yellow, a vivid pigment made from lead chromate.

  • The old artwork featured a stunning use of chrome yellow, giving it a lively appearance.

Synonyms

lemon yellow
vschrome yellow
3 2.5

A bright yellow like the outside of a lemon

is a pigment made from specific metal compounds rather than a color name
cadmium yellow
vschrome yellow
  • Specialized
1 8.3

A bright yellow pigment made from cadmium used in painting that is poisonous

is made from a metal oxide compound rather than a metal sulfide
lead chromate
vschrome yellow
  • Specialized
9.3

A bright yellow poisonous chemical used to make paint

is the pigment form made mainly from the pure chemical and often mixed

Surface Forms

chrome yellow singular
chrome yellows plural

Morphology

chrome + yellow

The phrase is directly compositional: combining 'chrome' (a chromium-based pigment/component) with 'yellow' yields the straightforward sense of a yellow pigment. A B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer it denotes a yellow colorant even if they could not deduce the precise chemical composition (lead chromate).

Etymology

Chrome yellow gets its name from the metal chrome and the color yellow. The metal, called chromium, gives a very bright color, so the name now means 'a bright yellow pigment' used in paints and art.