Crocoite

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crocoite \Cro"co*ite\ (kr?"k?-?t), n. [Gr. ???? saffron.] (Min.)
     Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red
     color; -- called also {red lead ore}.
     [1913 Webster]