How Minium is made:
| Origin: mineral and artificial | mineral minium (at Mineralogy Database) |
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| Artificial variety of pigment | One of the earliest artificially prepared pigments still in use today. Heating litharge (PbO) in air or oxidizing atomized molten lead at high temperatures. Red Lead manufacture in the 19th century. |
The ground pigment:
Pile of ground Minium
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