The manufacture of earth colours
by Josef Bersch
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Excerpt from The Manufacture of Earth ColoursOriginally issued as a volume of the series on pigments and colouring matters by the present author's father, the necessity for a new edition afforded a welcome Opportunity of revising Earl/é Colours. Although, in the nature of things, little progress has been made in this subject itself, there was a good deal to add in connection with the mechanical appliances for treating the colour earths and manufacturing them into pigments. In other respects, too, the work has been carefully gone through and brought up to date, with new and additional illustra...
Chapters (304)
- THE MANUFACTURE OF EARTH COLOURS
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- EARTH COLOURS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II THE RAW MATERIALS FOR EARTH COLOURS
- (A) White Raw Materials and Pigmentary Earths
- Limestone (Calcite, Limestone, Chalk)
- Gypsum (Alabaster)
- Barytes, or Heavy Spar
- Talc, Soapstone, Steatite
- Clay
- (B) Yellow Earths
- Brown Ironstone
- Ochre
- Yellow Earth
- Terra di Siena
- (C) The Red Earths
- Red Ironstone
- Bole
- Alum Sludge
- Mine Sludge
- (D) Blue Earths
- Azurite, or Ultramarine
- Vivianite
- (E) Green Earth Pigments
- Green Earth
- Malachite
- (F) Brown Earth Pigments
- Umber
- Asphaltum
- (G) Black Earth
- Black Schist
- Graphite
- CHAPTER III THE PREPARATION OF THE COLOUR EARTHS
- Crushing Machinery
- Levigation
- Draining and Drying
- Crushing and Sifting
- Calcining
- Mixing and Improving
- Moulding
- CHAPTER IV WHITE EARTH COLOURS
- Caustic Lime
- Pearl White
- Vienna White
- Chalk
- Precipitated Chalk
- Calcareous Marl
- Gypsum
- Kaolin, Pipeclay
- Barytes, or Heavy Spar
- Carbonate of Magnesia
- Talc
- Steatite or Soapstone
- CHAPTER V YELLOW EARTH COLOURS
- The Ochres
- Calcining (Burning) Ochre
- Ochres from Various Deposits
- Artificial Ochres
- Ochres as By-Products
- CHAPTER VI RED EARTH COLOURS
- Bole
- Native Ferric Oxide as a Pigment
- Iron Glance
- Hematite
- Raddle
- Burnt Ferric Oxide and Ochres
- (a) Burning in the Muffle
- (b) Caput Mortuum, Colcothar
- (c) Calcining Ferric Oxide
- Ferric Oxide Pigments from Alum Sludge
- CHAPTER VII BROWN EARTH COLOURS
- Terra di Siena
- True Umber
- Cologne Earth (Cologne Umber)
- Asphaltum Brown (Bitumen)
- CHAPTER VIII GREEN EARTH COLOURS
- Green Earth, or Celadon Green
- Artificial Green Earth (Green Ochre)
- Malachite Green
- CHAPTER IX BLUE EARTH COLOURS
- Malachite Blue (Lazulite)
- Vivianite
- CHAPTER X BLACK EARTH COLOURS
- Graphite
- Black Chalk
- CHAPTER XI THE COMMERCIAL NOMENCLATURE OF THE EARTH COLOURS
- White Earth Colours
- Yellow Earth Colours
- Red Earth Colours
- Brown Earth Colours
- Green Earth Colours
- Blue Earth Colours
- Grey Earth Colours
- Black Earth Colours
- INDEX
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