List of Inorganic Pigments - Blue Pigments

Blue Pigments

Aluminum pigments:

  • Ultramarine (PB29): a complex naturally occurring pigment of sulfur-containing sodio-silicate (Na8-10Al6Si6O24S2-4)

Cobalt pigments:

  • Cobalt Blue (PB28) and Cerulean Blue (PB35): cobalt(II) stannate

Copper pigments:

  • Egyptian Blue: a synthetic pigment of calcium copper silicate (CaCuSi4O10). Thought to be the first synthetically produced pigment.
  • Han Blue: BaCuSi4O10

Iron pigments:

  • Prussian Blue (PB27): a synthetic pigment of ferric hexacyanoferrate (Fe7(CN)18). The dye Marking blue is made by mixing Prussian Blue and alcohol.

Manganese pigments:

  • YIn1-xMnxO3: a synthetic pigment made from inserting Mn into the trigonal bipyramidal atomic site of the YInO3 crystal structure.

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