Where Ultramarine Blue Actually Performs Best: Plastics, Ceramics, Ink, and Detergent Production in Europe
Ultramarine blue is the same molecule regardless of which factory it ends up in. Sodium aluminosilicate sulfide, the same cage-like crystal structure trapping sulfur ions that gives lapis lazuli its color, sold today as Pigment Blue 29. What changes completely is what happens to that molecule once it enters a production line. An extruder screw, […]