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Pigments

Of or pertaining to material that changes the color of reflected light by absorbing selected wavelengths.

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Pigments

Prussian blue

Organic chemicals; Pigments

Prussian blue is a dark blue pigment with the idealised formula Fe7(CN)18. Another name for the colour Prussian blue is Berlin blue or, in painting, Parisian blue. Turnbull's blue is the same ...

Azurite

Organic chemicals; Pigments

Azurite is a soft, deep blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. Azurite was used as a blue pigment for centuries. Depending on the degree of fineness to which it was ...

Cobalt blue

Organic chemicals; Pigments

Cobalt blue is a cool, slightly desaturated blue color, historically made using cobalt salts of alumina. It is used in certain ceramics (historically, especially Chinese porcelain) and painting; the ...

Cerulean

Organic chemicals; Pigments

Cerulean, also spelled caerulean, may be applied to a range of colours from deep blue, sky-blue, bright blue or azure colour through greenish blue colors. The first recorded use of cerulean as a ...

Chrome yellow

Organic chemicals; Pigments

Chrome Yellow is a natural yellow pigment made of lead(II) chromate (PbCrO4). It was first extracted from the mineral crocoite by the French chemist Louis Vauquelin in 1809. Because the pigment tends ...

Aureolin

Organic chemicals; Pigments

Aureolin (sometimes called Cobalt Yellow) is a pigment used in oil and watercolour painting. Its colour index name is PY40 (40th entry on list of yellow pigments). It was first made in 1848 by N. W. ...

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