The Manufacture of Earth Colours

About this eBook

Author

Bersch, Josef, 1840-1907

Title

The manufacture of earth colours : With thirty-one illustrations

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Scott, Greenwood & Son, 1921.

Credits

Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

TP: Technology: Chemical technology

Subject

Coloring matter

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71219

Release Date

July 18, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE MANUFACTURE OF EARTH COLOURS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.EARTH COLOURS — CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
5. 5.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
6. 6.CHAPTER III THE PREPARATION OF THE COLOUR EARTHS — Crushing Machinery — Levigation — Draining and Drying — Crushing and Sifting — Calcining — Mixing and Improving — Moulding
7. 7.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
8. 8.CHAPTER V YELLOW EARTH COLOURS — The Ochres — Calcining (Burning) Ochre — Ochres from Various Deposits — Artificial Ochres — Ochres as By-Products
9. 9.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
10. 10.CHAPTER VII BROWN EARTH COLOURS — Terra di Siena — True Umber — Cologne Earth (Cologne Umber) — Asphaltum Brown (Bitumen)
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII GREEN EARTH COLOURS — Green Earth, or Celadon Green — Artificial Green Earth (Green Ochre) — Malachite Green
12. 12.CHAPTER IX BLUE EARTH COLOURS — Malachite Blue (Lazulite) — Vivianite
13. 13.CHAPTER X BLACK EARTH COLOURS — Graphite — Black Chalk
14. 14.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
15. 15.INDEX
16. 16.Transcriber’s Notes

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