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Popular Pigment Colours
By admin - Last updated: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Lamp black
Traditionally lamp black was made from soot collected from oil lamps. This is chemically known as amorphous carbon, because it is not bonded to form the naturally occurring carbon allotropes, graphite and diamond. Amorphous carbon reflects very little light, so lamp black and ivory black are darker that mars black.
Ivory black
Historically ivory black was [...]