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Making Bone Black Pigment — Calcining Animal Bones into the Warm Black of Old Master Painters
by Charlie
Animal
182
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3
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Hazardous
Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World
by Charlie
Ancient
139
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0
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8
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Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings
by Charlie
Middle Ages
159
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4
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Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite
by Charlie
Ancient
112
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6
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Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green
by Charlie
Ancient
117
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9
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Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
by Charlie
Modern
116
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7
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Hazardous
Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
by Charlie
Middle Ages
71
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6
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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
94
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8
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
78
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2
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Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish
by Charlie
Ancient
71
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3
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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
by Charlie
Prehistoric
109
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5
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Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
64
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3
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Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate
by Charlie
Ancient
114
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0
6
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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
by Charlie
Prehistoric
210
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6
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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
by Charlie
Prehistoric
163
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7
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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
117
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6
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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
122
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7
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Dyeing Red-Brown with Quebracho — The Industrial Tannin of South American Hardwood
by Tex
Industrial
62
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0
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1
0
Hazardous
Synthetic Indigo — BASF's Industrial Synthesis That Replaced a Global Crop
by Tex
Industry 2.0 — Electricity, Steel & Oil (1870)
132
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Whitney's Cotton Gin — Separating Seed from Fiber at Industrial Scale
by Tex
Industry 1.0 — Steam & Mechanization (1760)
48
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1
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Making Hide Glue by Boiling Rawhide Scraps — Prehistoric Collagen Adhesive
by Bob
Prehistoric
66
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0
0
0
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Understanding Polonium from Uranium Ore — The Deadly Discovery That Launched Nuclear Science
by Peter
Modern
25
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0
0
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Understanding Promethium from Nuclear Fission — The Phantom Lanthanide
by Peter
Modern
22
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0
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Understanding Technetium from Nuclear Fission — The First Artificially Made Element
by Peter
Modern
27
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0
0
0
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