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 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.

 Green n.
 1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
 2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.
    O'er the smooth enameled green.   --Milton.
 3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
 In that soft season when descending showers
 Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.   --Pope.
 4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
 5. Any substance or pigment of a green color.
 Alkali green Chem., an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green; -- called also Helvetia green.
 Berlin green. Chem. See under Berlin.
 Brilliant green Chem., a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition.
 Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper.
 Chrome green. See under Chrome.
 Emerald green. Chem. (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green, acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate. (b) See Paris green (below).
 Gaignet's green Chem. a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium.
 Methyl green Chem., an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; -- called also light-green.
 Mineral green. See under Mineral.
 Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a.
 Paris green Chem., a poisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and mitis green.
 Scheele's green Chem., a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green.

 chrome green
      n 1: any of a class of green pigments consisting of chrome yellow
           and iron blue
      2: a brilliant green color