Method of Pigment Manufacture

Quite apart from the problems of chemical synthesis, it is clear that the application of physico-chemical methods to pigment manufacture, first needed in the development of the... 

With few exceptions, extender pigments can be classified as commodity chemicals. They are manufactured in large quantities with less sophisticated production methods than most pigments. Whereas the majority of pigments is prepared synthetically, extender pigments are mainly manufactured by the beneficiation of natural minerals. Based on chemical composition, extender pigments are carbonate, sulfate, siUca-based, and siUcate-based compounds. 

The most important synthetic routes to iron oxide pigments involve either thermal decomposition or aqueous precipitation processes. A method of major importance for the manufacture of a-Fe203, for example, involves the thermal decomposition in air of FeS04-7H20 (copperas) at temperatures between 500 °C and 750 °C. The principal method of manufacture of the yellow a-FeO(OH) involves the oxidative hydrolysis of Fe(n) solutions, for example in the process represented by reaction (1). 

The most extensive compilation of information about pigments is in the volume Pigments and Solvent Dyes (1997), which is part of the Colour Index. For various reasons, there is now less technical information about the chemistry of the synthesis and manufacturing methods for pigments than appeared in the 1982 volume, although much of this was in references to patents. 

Modern methods of manufacturing this probably oldest representative among synthetic organic pigments involve dissolving aniline in strong sulfuric acid. Oxidation is achieved with sodium dichromate in the presence of a copper salt or one of the above-mentioned oxidation catalysts. Oxidation with sodium chlorate initially affords an indamine polymer (pernigraniline) ... 

Mossbauer spectroscopy is a selective tool for the quantitative analysis and spe-ciation of a very limited number of elements. It has been mainly used to study iron compounds—e.g., ceramics, as it gives valuable information about iron-bearing oxide and silicate minerals. This technique has been applied to the identification of the provenance of clay and used raw materials—the manufacturing method employed in pottery and, to a lesser extent, to the characterization of pigments and weathering crusts formed on stone monuments [23]. 

Black pigment described by Vitruvius was made from lampblack or charcoal. He describes in detail the method of manufacture of lamp black for this purpose.38... 

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