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For this last purpose, however, smalt is not perfectly adapted, the colour being difficult to lay on uniformly, and the paper when written on blunting the nibs of pens.— Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
The inferior kinds of smalt are occasionally adulterated with chalk 126.— Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Like smalt, it is known in the washtub as well as in the studio; and in the cheaper varieties, alumina, starch, chalk, oxide of iron, &c.;, are often largely present.— Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
One remarkable effect of this copper smalt--for it is nothing else--is, that by lamp-light it shows somewhat greenish, but shines by day with all the brightness of azure.— Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
To a greater or less extent, all these are durable Among the semi-stable, must be classed cyanine or Leitch's blue, smalt, and Prussian blue To the fugitive, belong indigo and the somewhat more permanent intense blue, Antwerp blue, and the copper blues In this list of blues, which grace or disgrace the palette of the present day, there is one colour which, although not permanent, is almost indispensable.— Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists

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