Lead white - overview

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Lead white

1. Overview

2. History
of use

3. Making the
pigment

4. Technical
details



Brief description of Lead white:

       Lead white (flake white) is the oldest of the whites still used by modern painters.

Names for Lead white:



Pronounciation:

led wite

Non-English names:

German

French

Italian

Bleiweiss

blanc de plomb

bianco di piombo

Chemical name:

Basic lead(II)-carbonate

A painted swatch of Lead white:

Source of Lead white:

Lead white crust formed on strips of lead.

modern mineralogical name: hydrocerussite (at Mineralogy Database)

Other whites
(intro) - Calcium carbonate whites - lead white - titanium dioxide - zinc white

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