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Inorganic chemicals
A broad class of substances encompassing all those that do not include carbon and its derivatives as their principal elements, yet not excluding carbides, carbonates, cyanides, cyanates, and carbon disulfide.
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mosaic gold
Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments
Mosaic gold, or stannic sulfide, SnS2, is obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It was called by the ...
orpiment
Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments
Orpiment, As2S3, is a common monoclinic arsenic sulfide mineral. Orpiment is an orange to yellow mineral that is found worldwide, and occurs as a sublimation product in volcanic ...
engineer's blue
Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments
Engineer's blue is prepared by mixing Prussian blue with a non-drying oily material (for example, grease). The coloured oil is rubbed onto a reference surface, and the workpiece ...
Prussian blue
Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments
Prussian blue is a dark blue pigment with the idealized formula Fe7(CN)18. Another name for the color Prussian blue is Berlin blue or, in painting, Parisian blue. Turnbull's blue ...
Purple of Cassius
Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments
Purple of Cassius is a purple pigment formed by the reaction of gold salts with tin(II) chloride. It has been used to impart glass with a red coloration (see cranberry glass), as ...
Scheele's Green
Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments
Scheele's Green, also called Schloss Green, is chemically a cupric hydrogen arsenite (also called copper arsenite or acidic copper arsenite), CuHAsO3. It is a compound similar to ...
Smalt
Inorganic chemicals; Inorganic pigments
Smalt is powdered glass, colored to a deep powder blue hue using cobalt ions derived from cobalt oxide (see cobalt glass for the non-powdered glass). Smalt is used as a pigment in ...
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