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1.  Overview     2. History of use     3. Making the pigment     4. Technical details

About the chemical structure:          Chemical name: Cadmium(II)-sulfide Formula: CdS Crystal system: greenockite: Hexagonal - Dihexagonal Pyramidal (at Mineralogy Database) Refractive index: e=2.506, w=2.529

How can you identify Cadmium orange?          Chemical identification: The particle sizes of the deeper cadmiums are about fifty times larger than the paler varieties. They are transparent particles that appear in clusters, microscopically. Cadmium pigments are dissolved in hydrochloric acid and nitric acids and are unchanged by sodium sulfide Spectra:   Usage and handling:          Permanence: Toxicity: excellent MSDS (at Fisher Scientific)   Literature:             Artists’ Pigments. A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, Vol. 1, L. Feller, Hrsg., Cambridge University Press, London 1986, p. 65 -108.

Other oranges         (intro) - Cadmium orange - Chrome orange - Orpiment