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What does lithopone mean?

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  1. A white pigment, a mixture of barium sulfate and zinc sulfide, used in paints and enamels
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An amusing incident is told of a young man who painted his boat one night with a white paint in which lithopone was the pigment.
Almost complete failure had taken place in every case where lithopone had been used.
For decades, local factories smelted zinc, produced phosphate fertilizer, and manufactured lithopone paint pigment.
These lithopone tests were later on replaced by new tests which are described later in this book.
Thixotropy occurs in paint, such as lithopone in oil, which flows freely when stirred and reverts to a gel-like state on standing.
The basic white pigments include zinc oxide, zinc sulfide, lithopone, and titanium dioxide.

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