English English Dictionary

The process by which such picture is made.

Same as Chromium.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence.

One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.

Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.

Same as Chromatism.

A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.

A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid.

A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.

A chromolithograph.

An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.

Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.

An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

A chromoplastid.

A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.

One who is engaged in chromolithography.

Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.

Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.