Cinnabar is historically the source for many pigments of what color?

Historically, the gemstone known as cinnabar has been used to make the red pigment called vermilion, and has provided rouge for cosmetics for hundreds of years. As a gemstone, cinnabar is extremely soft and fragile, so is usually cut for collectors and carvings, rather than jewelry.

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