Opaque white pigment development

The most widely used opaque white pigment was basic carbonate white lead, manufactured by a process little different from that known by the early Greeks in 400 B.C. Other commonly used pigments were zinc oxide, dating back to 1770 zinc sulfide, first produced in 1783 lithopone, developed in 1847 and basic sulfate white lead, which first appeared in 1855. 

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