General : Making pigments or paint from minerals
· Ground mineral pigments much more stable than organic dyes which can oxidize or be degraded by light. One exception is azurite which was used for blue, but gradually reacts with carbon dioxide and water to become green malachite. This explains the "green sky" sometimes observed in older paintings. Detection of synthetic pigments such as Prussian blue in "old paintings" has been used to .
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