ultramarine, ultramarine blue(noun)
blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli
a vivid blue to purple-blue color
of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color
a brilliant blue pigment that is either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically.
having a brilliant blue colour.
situated or being beyond the sea
a blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively
Ultramarine is a blue pigment consisting primarily of a zeolite-based mineral containing small amounts of polysulfides. It occurs in nature as a proximate component of lapis lazuli. The pigment color code is P. Blue 29 77007. Ultramarine is the most complex of the mineral pigments, a complex sulfur-containing sodio-silicate containing a blue cubic mineral called lazurite. Some chloride is often present in the crystal lattice as well. The blue color of the pigment is due to the S3− radical anion, which contains an unpaired electron.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
ul-tra-ma-rēn′, adj. situated beyond the sea.—n. the most beautiful and durable sky-blue colour, so called either from its intense blue, or from the lapis lazuli, from which it is made, being brought from Asia, beyond the sea.
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The numerical value of ultramarine in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
The numerical value of ultramarine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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