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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
72
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Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish
by Charlie
Ancient
51
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3
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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
by Charlie
Prehistoric
87
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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
57
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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
97
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6
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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
by Charlie
Prehistoric
190
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6
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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
by Charlie
Prehistoric
152
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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
100
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6
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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
105
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7
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Dyeing Red-Brown with Quebracho — The Industrial Tannin of South American Hardwood
by Tex
Industrial
59
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1
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Hazardous
Synthetic Indigo — BASF's Industrial Synthesis That Replaced a Global Crop
by Tex
Industry 2.0 — Electricity, Steel & Oil (1870)
125
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Whitney's Cotton Gin — Separating Seed from Fiber at Industrial Scale
by Tex
Cotton
43
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1
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Making Hide Glue by Boiling Rawhide Scraps — Prehistoric Collagen Adhesive
by Bob
Prehistoric
60
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Understanding Polonium from Uranium Ore — The Deadly Discovery That Launched Nuclear Science
by Peter
Modern
23
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0
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Understanding Promethium from Nuclear Fission — The Phantom Lanthanide
by Peter
Modern
16
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0
0
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Understanding Technetium from Nuclear Fission — The First Artificially Made Element
by Peter
Modern
26
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0
0
0
Hazardous
Understanding Thorium from Monazite — The Nuclear Fuel That Could Replace Uranium
by Peter
Nuclear
16
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4
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Understanding Hafnium from Zircon — The Nuclear Fuel Rod Guardian
by Peter
Modern
32
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0
0
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Understanding Indium from Zinc Ore — The Soft Metal Behind Every Touchscreen
by Peter
Chemistry
60
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3
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Understanding Rhodium from Platinum Group Ore — The Most Expensive Industrial Metal
by Peter
Modern
19
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4
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Understanding Rubidium from Lepidolite — The Alkali Metal That Defines Time
by Peter
Chemistry
49
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2
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Understanding Bromine from Seawater Brine — The Only Liquid Non-Metal
by Peter
Chemistry
69
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2
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Understanding Germanium from Zinc Ore Processing — The Semiconductor That Started the Electronics Age
by Peter
Chemistry
43
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2
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