chrome yellow

any of several yellow pigments in shades from lemon to deep orange, composed chiefly of chromates of lead, barium, or zinc.

Origin of chrome yellow

First recorded in 1810–20

Before the year 2400 we shall have a chrome-yellow president and a black-and-tan secretary of the treasury.

The Stillwater Tragedy |Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) |Isabella L. Bird
They are a terrestrial species, and the colors are a beautiful combination of flame-red with chrome-yellow.

In Indian Mexico (1908) |Frederick Starr
The great spreading lip has a gamboge throat fading to chrome-yellow, intersected with lines of bright crimson.

The Woodlands Orchids |Frederick Boyle

Some of the insoluble chromates are used as pigments; chromate of lead or chrome-yellow is the most important.

A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. |Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

chrome yellow

any yellow pigment consisting of lead chromate mixed with lead sulphate