DF2014:Cinnabar
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Cinnabar is a brilliant red stone found as veins in numerous environments. Despite its appearance (showing up as £ unmined and * mined), it is not a usable ore.
Cinnabar is also the most dense non-economic stone besides slade, so it's very good for stone-fall traps and as catapult ammo. Hauling cinnabar is not realistic, or at least will take an eternity, without a wheelbarrow. Additionally, cinnabar crafts are so heavyweight that they can fill up a caravan.
In real life
Cinnabar is a mineral of mercury sulfide (HgS), and has been used throughout history both for the ease in which it can be made to release its elemental mercury, and for use as a red pigment in paint. In ancient Roman history, slaves or prisoners were consigned to cinnabar mines as a death sentence - unlike humans, dwarves are evidently immune to mercury poisoning.
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ore of mercury, powdered gives vermilion dye
[INORGANIC:CINNABAR]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:cinnabar][DISPLAY_COLOR:4:7:1][TILE:156]
[ENVIRONMENT:IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE:VEIN:100]
[ENVIRONMENT_SPEC:SHALE:VEIN:100]
[ENVIRONMENT_SPEC:QUARTZITE:VEIN:100]
[ITEM_SYMBOL:'*']
[IS_STONE]
[MELTING_POINT:11044]
[SOLID_DENSITY:8100]
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