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1.  Overview     2. History of use     3. Making the pigment     4. Technical details

How Red lead is made:          Source: mineral minium (at Mineralogy Database) Artificial variety of pigment Heating litharge (PbO) in air or oxidizing atomized molten lead at high temperatures

The ground pigment:             Pile of ground Red lead:

Other reds         (intro) - Madder lake (alizarine) - realgar - red lead - Red ochre - vermilion