Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical menTerry, George
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Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men
Terry, George
Paint; Painting, Industrial; Pigments
The modus operandi with the wet method is as follows:--The barytes, in
the requisite fine state of subdivision, is very thoroughly stirred up
with water in a capacious vessel fitted with an agitator, the water
being in sufficient quantity to make quite a fluid mass. In convenient
proximity to the barytes tank, and elevated above it, provide three
other tanks of lesser capacity furnished with means of discharging
their contents into the barytes tank. In one of these smaller tanks
dissolve the green copperas in cold water; in another, the sugar of
lead; and in the third the bichromate and prussiate of potash together.
When all the salts are thoroughly dissolved, and while the barytes is
kept in constant agitation, admit first of all the copperas solution,
then the lead acetate solution, and finally the combined bichromate
and prussiate solution, never allowing the stirring to slacken till
after the last drop of these solutions has been introduced. When the
commingling of all the ingredients is judged to be complete, the green
pigment formed is allowed to subside, and the clear supernatant fluid
is siphoned off. The pigment is washed several times by admitting
clean water, agitating and settling, and finally is removed, drained
on a filter, and slowly and carefully dried. Many ways of arranging
the apparatus will suggest themselves, the chief point to keep in mind
being to economise labour as much as possible.
The dry method of mixing is simplicity itself in comparison with the
above, and merely entails putting the component materials--barytes,
chrome-yellow and Prussian blue--through an edge-runner mill
simultaneously, in the proportions adapted for producing the shade
required.
In giving formulæ for compounding these Brunswick greens, it must be
understood that they are not absolute, as every manufacturer adopts
his own particular proportions for a certain shade, but they form
a sufficiently approximate basis from which to work. They are all
computed for 100 lb. of barytes forming the body of the new pigment:--
_Pale_: Wet--1 lb. each copperas and prussiate, 12 lb. lead
acetate, 3¾ lb. bichromate.
Dry--80 lb. chrome yellow, 1¼ lb. Prussian blue.
_Medium_: Wet--1½ lb. each copperas and prussiate, 12½ lb. lead
acetate, 4 lb. bichromate.
Dry--30 lb. chrome yellow, 2¼ lb. Prussian blue.
_Deep_: Wet--2 lb. each copperas and prussiate, 13 lb. lead
acetate, 4¼ lb. bichromate.
Dry--30 lb. chrome yellow, 4½ lb. Prussian blue.
_Extra deep_: Wet--3½ lb. each, copperas and prussiate, 14½ lb.
lead acetate, 4½ lb. bichromate.
Dry--30 lb. chrome yellow, 7 lb. Prussian blue.
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