First new pigment of blue in 200 years finally goes on sale

Photo of YInMn Blue powder, by Oregon State University

In 1802, chemists discovered that you could commercially manufacture a great blue pigment using cobalt. For the last 200 years, that was basically it.

Then in 2009, researchers at Oregon State University finally stumbled across a new form of blue, more vivid yet than the cobalt stuff. — Read the rest



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