Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white pigment consisting of a mixture of zinc sulfide, zinc oxide, and barium sulfate.
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- noun A white
pigment , a mixture of barium sulfate and zinc sulfide, used inpaints andenamels
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was McCrone that determined that stains on the Shroud of Turin were actually made of red ocher and vermilion tempera paint, and that a manuscript of the Gospel of Mark believed to be from the 14th century contained Prussian blue paint, as well as the chemical lithopone, which dated the manuscript to the 18th century at the earliest.
The Frida Fighters 2010
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Then, the principal white pigments used in paints were white lead, zinc white and lithopone.
Rockwell’s Palette James Gurney 2010
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For this purpose it is employed both in the ground form and in the manufacture of lithopone, a widely used white paint consisting of barium sulphate and zinc sulphide.
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He found no evidence of a prior restoration and most importantly determined that the white colour used contained the pigment lithopone which was not available until 1874, thereby setting an 1874 terminus post quem date for the codex.
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He found no evidence of a prior restoration and most importantly determined that the white colour used contained the pigment lithopone which was not available until 1874, thereby setting an 1874 terminus post quem date for the codex.
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He found no evidence of a prior restoration and most importantly determined that the white colour used contained the pigment lithopone which was not available until 1874, thereby setting an 1874 terminus post quem date for the codex.
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