Griffith's zinc white

Description

An old name for an impure zinc white pigment prepared by igniting Zinc sulfide. It was used in industrial paints.

Authority

• Hermann Kuhn, Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art and Antiquities, Butterworths, London, 1986

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996