A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance. Pigments are completely or nearly insoluble and chemically unreactive in water or...
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Fugitive pigments are impermanent pigments that lighten, darken, or otherwise change in appearance or physicality over time when exposed to environmental...
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Biological pigments include plant pigments and flower pigments. Many biological structures, such as skin, eyes, feathers, fur and hair contain pigments such...
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A lake pigment is a pigment made by precipitating a dye with an inert binder, or mordant, usually a metallic salt. Unlike vermilion, ultramarine, and other...
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A photosynthetic pigment (accessory pigment; chloroplast pigment; antenna pigment) is a pigment that is present in chloroplasts or photosynthetic bacteria...
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Earth pigments are naturally occurring minerals that have been used since prehistoric times as pigments. Among the primary types of earth pigments include...
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A respiratory pigment is a metalloprotein that serves a variety of important functions, its main being O2 transport. Other functions performed include...
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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...
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Titanium dioxide (redirect from Pigment White 6)
titanium with the chemical formula TiO 2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6 (PW6), or CI 77891. It is a white solid that...
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Paris green (redirect from Mountain Green (pigment))
triarsenite or copper(II) acetoarsenite) is an arsenic-based organic pigment. As a green pigment it is also known as Mitis green, Schweinfurt green, Sattler green...
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The pigmented layer of retina or retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is the pigmented cell layer just outside the neurosensory retina that nourishes retinal...
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Albinism (redirect from Albinism, minimal pigment type)
that are not absorbed by the pigment, but instead are reflected. Biological pigments include plant pigments and flower pigments. Animals can appear coloured...
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Eye color (redirect from Human eye pigment)
brown to black, depending on the concentration of melanin in the iris pigment epithelium (located on the back of the iris), the melanin content within...
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Ochre (redirect from Ocher (pigment))
(ōkhrós) 'pale'), iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand. It ranges...
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Pigment dispersion syndrome (PDS) is an eye disorder that can lead to a form of glaucoma known as pigmentary glaucoma. It takes place when pigment cells...
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Cadmium pigments are a class of pigments that contain cadmium. Most of the cadmium produced worldwide has been for use in rechargeable nickel–cadmium batteries...
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Chromatophore (redirect from Pigment cell)
Chromatophores are cells that produce color, of which many types are pigment-containing cells, or groups of cells, found in a wide range of animals including...
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Prussian blue (redirect from Pigment Blue 27)
Berlin blue, Brandenburg blue, Parisian and Paris blue) is a dark blue pigment produced by oxidation of ferrous ferrocyanide salts. It has the chemical...
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Blue (section Pigments for painting and glass)
ornament and later, in the Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine, the most expensive of all pigments. In the eighth century Chinese artists used cobalt...
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Green pigments are the materials used to create the green colors seen in painting and the other arts. Most come from minerals, particularly those containing...
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Gallstone (redirect from Pigmented gallstones)
of celiac disease is delayed. Pigment gallstones are most commonly seen in the developing world. Risk factors for pigment stones include hemolytic anemias...
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Minium, also known as red lead or red lead oxide, is a bright orange red pigment that was widely used in the Middle Ages for the decoration of manuscripts...
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Cerulean (category Pigments)
"Cerulean blue" is the name of a blue-green pigment consisting of cobalt stannate (Co 2SnO 4). The pigment was first synthesized in the late eighteenth...
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Ultramarine (category Inorganic pigments)
color pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. Its lengthy grinding and washing process makes the natural pigment quite...
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Accessory pigments are light-absorbing compounds, found in photosynthetic organisms, that work in conjunction with chlorophyll a. They include other forms...
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Red pigments are materials, usually made from minerals, used to create the red colors in painting and other arts. The color of red and other pigments is...
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Carbon print (redirect from Pigment printing)
A carbon print is a photographic print with an image consisting of pigmented gelatin, rather than of silver or other metallic particles suspended in a...
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Mummy brown (redirect from Mummy pigment)
was a rich brown bituminous pigment with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber and raw umber in tint. The pigment was made from the flesh of mummies...
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