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  2. Blue pigments - Wikipedia

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    Blue pigments are natural or synthetic materials, usually made from minerals and insoluble with water, used to make the blue colors in painting and other arts. The raw material of the earliest blue pigment was lapis lazuli from mines in Afghanistan, that was refined into the pigment ultramarine. Since the late 18th and 19th century, blue ...

  3. List of inorganic pigments - Wikipedia

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    Scheele's Green: yellowish-green pigment commonly used during the early to mid-19th century (AsCuHO 3) Paris Green: It was manufactured in 1814 to be a pigment to make a vibrant green paint; Cadmium pigments. Cadmium green: a light green pigment consisting of a mixture of cadmium yellow (CdS) and chrome green (Cr 2 O 3). Chromium pigments

  4. Caput mortuum (pigment) - Wikipedia

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    Caput mortuum ( Latin for 'dead head', and variously spelled caput mortum or caput mortem ), also known as cardinal purple, is the name given to a purple variety of haematite iron oxide pigment, used in oil paints and paper dyes. Due to the cultural significance of its deep purple colour, it was very popular for painting the robes of religious ...

  5. Manganese violet - Wikipedia

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    Manganese violet is the inorganic compound with the formula NH 4 MnP 2 O 7. [1] As implied by its name and composition, it is a purple, inorganic pigment. [2] Because it is often impure, the pigment's hue is varied. [3] Notable artists who have used the pigment include Claude Monet, who relied on manganese violet in his Rouen Cathedral series ...

  6. Vitreous enamel - Wikipedia

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    Vitreous enamel. Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C (1,380 and 1,560 °F). The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating. The word vitreous comes from the Latin vitreus, meaning "glassy".

  7. Pigment violet 23 - Wikipedia

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    Pigment violet 23 is an organic compound that is a commercial pigment. It is member of the di oxazine family of heterocyclic compounds, but derived from carbazoles. [1] It is prepared by condensation of chloranil and 3-amino- N -ethyl carbazole. It has a centrosymmetric angular structure. [2]

  8. Subtractive color - Wikipedia

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    Subtractive color or subtractive color mixing predicts the spectral power distribution of light after it passes through successive layers of partially absorbing media. This idealized model is the essential principle of how dyes and pigments are used in color printing and photography, where the perception of color is elicited after white light ...

  9. Copper phthalocyanine - Wikipedia

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    H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Copper phthalocyanine (CuPc), also called phthalocyanine blue, phthalo blue and many other names, is a bright, crystalline, synthetic blue pigment from the group of dyes based on phthalocyanines. Its brilliant blue is frequently used in paints and dyes.