Cadmium barium yellow

Description

A yellow cadmium pigment co-precipitated on sulfate barium sulfate. Also called cadmium lithopone yellows, these pigments were first used in 1926. Cadmium barium yellow is a permanent color that has poorer hiding power and lower tinting strength than pure cadmium yellow pigment.

See sulfide cadmium sulfide.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Pigment Yellow 35; giallo di cadmio e bario (It.); amarelo de cdmio e brio (Port.)

Raman

Hazards and Safety

Toxic by inhalation and ingestion.

Authority

• Michael McCann, Michael McCann, Artist Beware, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York City, 1979