Pigments through the Ages

              
/ cop • per   rez • uh • nate /
Copper resinate 		  
   

     
 

  1.  Overview  
  2. History
of use		  
  3. Making the
pigment		  
  4. Technical
details		  
  
  About the chemical structure:
        
Chemical name:
Copper salts of resin acids (mainly abietic acid)
Formula:
mainly Cu(C19H29COO)2
Refractive index:
n/a
  

  How can you identify Copper resinate?
        
Chemical identification:
n/a
Spectra:


  Usage and handling:
        
Permanence:
Toxicity:
poor lightfastness
 MSDS for verdigris (at Fisher Scientific)

  Literature:   
        
Artists’ Pigments. A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, Vol. 2: A. Roy (Ed.) Oxford University Press 1993, p. 148-158.


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