Beautiful Colors, Ugly History
The history of color isn’t all dried flowers and ground up beetles.
Sometimes it’s lead and arsenic and metals so radioactive they glow in the dark.
And I think that’s neat to learn about.
Deadly Colors
- Vermillion (Mercury Sulfide)
- Cadmium Red Hue (Cadmium/ Heavy Metals)
- Cadmium Yellow Hue (Cadmium/ Heavy Metals)
- Naples Yellow Hue (Lead Antimonate)
- Paris Green Hue (Arsenic)
- Scheele’s Green Hue (Arsenic)
- Phosphorescent White to Stand In for Radium Paint (Radium/ Radioactive)