Pigments through the Ages

              
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Titanium Dioxide Whites 
 
   

     
 

  1.  Overview  
  2. History
of use
 
  3. Making the
pigment
 
  4. Technical
details
 
  
  How Titanium Dioxide Whites is made:
        
Source:
Minerals anatase and rutile (at Mineralogy Database)


Artificial variety of pigment
Several industrial methods based on both minerals anatase and rutile.

  Illustration of the process:   
        
Industrial manufacture of titanium white
Oven at Kronos Titan
Sample of titanium dioxide from the oven

  The ground pigment:   
        
Pile of ground Titanium Dioxide Whites:


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

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  blues  

  greens  

  yellows  

  oranges  

  reds  

  whites  

  browns  

  blacks  

    
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