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Yūōiro

雄黄色 · ゆうおういろ

Yūōiro borrows its colour from orpiment, a crystalline form of arsenic sulfide: a bright, vivid yellow warmed toward amber. Its name, written 'male yellow', is the traditional term for that mineral.

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white 2.22 × black 9.47 AAA
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雄黄 石黄 鉱物 — what the name literally points to.

orpiment yellow mineral crystal