EMERALD GREEN

a vivid light green pigment, an ace to-arsenite of copper, used both in oil and watercolour painting. It is extremely poisonous. Hydrated chromium sesquioxide is another mineral emerald green. There is also an aniline dye of this name. EMERALD LORE. The emerald as a sacred stone was anciently believed to blind a serpent which gazed at it, but to strengthen human eyes, and was, according to Theophrastus, worn as a ring-stone on account of this property. It was confused with ‘false emerald,’ a kind of malachite. This fact explains the reference to ancient kings presenting blocks of emerald 1 or 2 cubits long to temples. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Babylonian name was barraktu, the Sanskrit marakata, the Hebrew bareket or bark at, the Greek maragdos or smaragdos.