Inorganic pigments

Inorganic pigments

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Inorganic pigments

Payne's grey

Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments

Payne's grey is a dark blue-grey colour used in painting. It can be used as a mixer in place of black. Being less intense than black, it is easier to get the right shade when using it as a mixer. ...

Lithophone

Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments

Lithophone is a white pigment consisting of a mixture of barium sulphate and zinc sulfide. It is used in interior paints and in some enamels. It is a valuable pigment that is brilliant white with ...

Lead tetroxide

Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments

Lead tetroxide, also called minium, red lead or triplumbic tetroxide, is a bright red or orange crystalline or amorphous pigment. Chemically, red lead is lead tetroxide, Pb3O4, or 2PbO·PbO2. This ...

Marking blue is made by mixing methylated spirits with shellac and gentian violet. This is not to be confused with engineer's blue, made by mixing Prussian Blue with oil. Marking blue, layout stain ...

Chrome yellow

Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic 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 ...

Mosaic gold

Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments

Mosaic gold, or stannic sulfide, SnS2, is obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It was called by the alchemists aurum ...

Manganese dioxide

Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments

Manganese(IV) oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula MnO2. This blackish or brown solid occurs naturally as the mineral pyrolusite, which is the main ore of manganese and a component of ...