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Tag: pigment-history

5) Pigments from the industrial colour revolution of “The Long Nineteenth Century” (1798-1914) and beyond

WHEN?Pigments in HistoryThe fifth circle “Nothing is perhaps more peculiar than the process by which one obtains Prussian Blue, and it must be owned that, if chance had not taken a hand, a profound theory would be necessary to invent it” humbly admitted in 1762, the chemist Jean Hellot. If we discard then the discovery…

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